The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-09-13

Inc statement so handed TO the president
was afterwards delivered by the White House
to the department of justice, but the matter was
apparently ignored in toto. No request was ever
made for the names of the criminal petitioners,
and it is difficult to see how adequate investiga
tiOn could be made without those names.
Bandit raids along our southwestern border
continued They were doubtless inspired by RO-
man prelates for the most diabOlical purpose and
were exploited by press responsive to the
money trust in order to enrage the people and so
force the United States to make war on the pa
triOtic government then and now striving to
establish civil and religious liberty ard justice in
our helpless neighbOring republic SO long and so
deeply outraged by papal and predatory venality
and oppression.
Indications then were that the conspiracy
would succeed. Military forces of the United
States were sent four hundred miles beyond the
border and there entrenched with heavy artillery
in the heart of Mexico for the Ostensible PURPOSE
as the public then read in the inspired press, of
chasing bandits in their mountain fastnesses
and retreats.
Our forces crossed the border with the re-
luctant consent Of the CarranZa government, but
remained there for months over the protest of
that government and in derOgation of intena-
tiOnal law. AT that critical juncture, the Euro
pean crisis became so acute that our forces were
gallant commander to face the hordes of kaisers,
sultans and pope in the most stupendOus cata-
Clysm with which autocrats have ever scOurged
the world.
During the past three years, diocesan organs
of the papal thrones in our cities and hundreds
Of contemplate Roman Catholic squirts, duped
and poisoned by those thrones, have poured upon
the CarranZa government a constant stream of
billingsgate and meudacity to deceive and preju-
dice the American people.
Meantime, Felix Diaz has gone to Mexico
pursuant to the petition of criminal papists and
their promise of support and has headed revOlu-
tiOnary forces to aid Villa and other chronic
banditti to embarrass and discredit the Mexican
government by impugning its authority and
perpetrating Outrages against American citizens
in that country and along the border.
Strong efforts are now under way to force
cur government to intervene by force in order
to punish and destroy the victim rather than the
authors of this mOnstrOus condition. A senator
ial committee appointed to investigate the situa-
tion is headed by Senator Fall of New Mexico,
who has always favored American Intervention
in Mexico and is understood to own large inter-
ests in that country. Principles Of jurispru-
,dence everywhere recognized would disqualify
one to head tribunal investigating issues in
which he is believed to be heavily interested In
teryentiOn by this country would ultimately en-
nance very greatly the value of properties held
by American citizens in Mexico.
N But the situation is becoming acute. Rome
and Wall Street are poisoning public sentiment
in this country while their creatures bark vi.
ciOusly along the border and in Mexico in the
hope of exciting the two governments to release
their war dogs.
Let the people keep their poise. War on oul
bleeding neighbOr inspired by the very forces Of
darkness that have been her ruin would be both
calamity and an international crime. 1t would
drench Mexico in the blood of its poems so long
debased by Jesuit intrigue. Our brave boys
would share in the unrighteous casualties. II
would repress by the heavy hand of authority
the righteous opposition and hatred towards the
priests Of Rome and would mean billions oi
added wealth to the Roman diOceses and vena
miniOns of the money trust.
But 1t would further frenzy our markets anC
add to the mountain of debt now resting 81
heavily upon our people and would probably ado
several millions Of Roman Catholics to the vot
ing population Of the United States. 1t mus
not be done.