The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-05-03
Women and Democracy

were ladies What 1t the bishops and arcnDSnopS Oh
Rome were feminine in fact as well as in dress2
Some women say that this is mans world-that /
have been deprived of their proper share In human
affairs while have made and remade this old world at
their own will with slight consideration of womans just
rights.
Without discussing that issue, and without taking
sides with to the relative rights OF each
we should like to ask what could expect 1t the
world ruled by bachelor pope and Its affairs ad.
mnstered by bachelor cardinals with the connlvance OF
bachelor bishops and bachelor priests
The fact is that this old world has been so ruled
through many centuries and the effect of such domna
ton still fingers Modern civilization, and It's growing
consideration for and their reasonable rights has
come up through conflict with those ecclesiastical bache
lors mentioned.
Women who have read history can recall queens as
well as kings among secular rulers but there was but one
popess whom Rome denies and indignantly repudl-
ates as though such infringement on masculine monop
oily would be horrible
If there has been discrimination against women; ifI
they have been denied proper part In the
work Of civilizations what influence is so much to blame
for it as the Jesuit anti feminist philosophy which the pa
pal system has substituted for Christian religion In the
so-called Roman Catholic church?
Women are indeed welcome in that alleged church
for certain servie purposes They may be nuns and
Sisters to beg and scrub and toll for the greater glory
Of the fathers" They may even teach children what
they told but there is no place for them In the her
archy or ruling class of the cult
And there is no hope of their attaining to such
a dignity woman may sit in the American congress
with the same rights and privileges as her brother mem
bers but her election to that body and womans suffrage
as political principle is opposed by Cardinal Gibbons
all the pope's cardinals and all his clergy
Can't American women take the hint when it is so
broadly given, that Rome has no use for them but as
drudges and servants7
And now Rome, by means Of it's local agents and its
ractabe subjects of the pope enters American politics to
reshape American civilization. Rome is ruled by papa
monarch and is therefore dissatisfied with democracy
There is the democratic public school, and it's teaching
Of that American document the Declaration Of Independ
ence which says that governments derive their just powers
from the consent of the governed.
Such teaching is heretica for faith in the American
people the of political power is in plain conflict
with Pope Leos assertion that popes stand in the place
of God Almighty this earth to rule the world without
responsibility to manor woman.
Democracy also tolerates the Protestant denomina-
TONS or sects" as the popes call them Such liberation
is noerabe to the occupants OF the throne
which they claim as heritage from Saint Peter.
Democracy also toerates and regulates civil marriage,
another aront to popery which declares marriage sac
ramen and asserts its monopoly of the sacraments
And now democracy is crowning its evil work with
equal suffrage-with welcome to voters and
public officials 1t is hard to tell whether that prohibi
ion of the liquor traffic. is most grievous to the bachelor
consprators against American civilization
Papal politics is being urged upon the American peo-
pie in the glise of religion Ii accepted its worst eff
fects would fall upon American just it has upon
the women of other countries. N
If American women are yet the victims OF discrimi-
nation; how about the of Mexico, Spain and Aus
ra where popery has been the dominating power and in
Huence for so long up until very recent times?
American women are coming to their own; slowly
perhaps but with steady certainty that is threatened by
nothing SO much papal propaganda If democracy sur
wives the attack of Jesutism its progress will for
ward with and men sharing equally in the labor
and in the triumph
More than two dozen states have already granted
women the right to vote for presidential electors This
concession Of just right also imposes grave response
blity By that act become the guardians Of the
own liberties for they given the power to exercise
choice concerning the laws under which they live.
They now stand side by side with their brothers at th
polls to approve for the welfare
defeat such schemes popery and its political program
in this country be hoped that they will make goot
use Of the opportunity to defend the public school ant
other conservators Of the nations welfare.