Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1920-06-17
CHURCHES FIGHT
RED MENACE
Score Of Large Denominations
Allied With Attorney General
Palmer h Awakening Nation
10 Enemy Peril Within. ], !.
AMERlcANIsM GREAT ISSUE.
God.Fsarinu Voters Covenant to Put
at the Head Of This Government Z
Man Of Proved Capacity and Firm
ness Who Will Suppress the Preach
ers and Practicers Of DIscord and
Violence.


Violence.
WashingtOn.-The greatest indorSe-
ment ever given to the outstanding
Americanism of living official In pub
lie life is the forward movement repre-
sented by the powerful among more
than score Of large church denomi-
national organizations which has just
been effected In this country to combat
the "Red menace"
Twenty-Five million persons, repre-
senting more than 20 per cent Of the
membership of all Protestant church
organizations in the United States, are
now lending their strength to the ALI
ance which will carry on to its logical
conclusion the work OF Attorney Gen.
eral Mitchell Palmer In awakening the
people Of the nation to a realization of
their peril from the enemy within and
protecting the government with firm
hand from those who sought to over
throw it by force and violence.
Americanism and AmericaniZation is
to be the watchword Of the churches,
and the Christian people of the coun-
try, who have caught the note from the
reveille sounded by Mr.. Palmer, will
see to it that man alive to the great
question and Of proved capacity to
carry on the great work that Is being
launched is put at the head Of affairs
Of government in this country.
To these millions Of earnest people
who see In the safety Of the country,
home and f1reside the OvershadOwing
issue of the future, regardless of poll
tics or politicians, there can be no step
backward now that the forward move
ment is on, and the man who appeals
to them most strongly as measuring up
to the highest standard Of American
ism and whose deeds are test-proof of
his high purpose to bring his whole
country to q realization Of the Hottest
ideals Of citizenship will receive their
undivided support in primary, election
and in the administration Of his high
Office
Before the great campaign of Amer
icanism to be undertaken by the Prot
estant church organizations is well
under way 1t would not be surprising
to find the percentage in the alliance
grow to round 100 per cent, repre-
senting 100 per cent Americanism.
The great hierarchy Of the Roman
Catholic Church in the United States
is heart and soul with the movement
for Americanization and will lend its
full strength to the promotion through
the far-reaching channels of the
church of the preaching and teaching
of staunch Americanism to the many
millions Of its Congregation within the
United States.
A pastoral letter, the first issued by
the heads of the Catholic Church in
the United States in thirty-five years,
has recently gone to all its people, in
which the following paragraph is not
the least in Importance of the decla-
rations Of the letter:
social remedies which will approve
themselves to the American people,
there is one that, we feel confident,
they will never adopt. That is the
method of revolution. For it there Is
neither justification nor excuse under
our form of government. Through the
ordinary and orderly processes of edu-
cation, organization and legislation all
social wrongs can be righted. While
these processes at times may seem
distressingly slow, they will achieve
more in the final result than violence
or revolution. The radicalism and
worse than radicalism Of the labor
movement in some of the countries of
Europe has no lesson for the workers
Of the United States except as an ex-
ample Of methods to be detested and
avoided"
Thus the churches and their people
In the United States stand united in
determined movement to look to the
future security Of the government OF
their country and the peace and hap
piness Of Its people. In this, as In
many similar movements which have
written history, it is more question
Of the man than the measure.
.
The formation of the powerful ALI
ance In the interchurch world move
ment to campaign against red radical
ism with Americanism Is but another
proof that the American people have
made the issue Of the day for the gov
eminent, for the church and for the
nation. 1t is stated that the inter-
church world movement is serving as
q clearing house for speedy and Co
operative action to cope with the evils
Of radicalism, which have been made
public as the result Of nationwide
survey. On their own account the
representatives Of these 25000, 600
people OF the country have found that
"Americanism'' is the one and great
Issue now before the people and have
called upon the churches to expend
from their emergency funds several
| millions Of dollars In immediate eff
fort to raise the standard Of Ameri-
canism.