Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1920-07-01
Score OF Large Denominations
Allied With Attorney General
Palmer in Awakening Nation
to Enemy Peril Within.
AMERlCANISM GREAT ISSUE.
ocd-Fearlnu Voters Covenant to Put
I'd the Head of This Government a
Man Of Proved Capacity and Firm.
ness Who viii Suppress the Preach
era and Prsctlcers Of Discord and
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 NOR
than a score Of large church denomi
national organizations which has jus
been effected In this country to eomba
the RED menace"
Twenty-Five million persons, repre-
ssnting more than 20 per cent of tn,
membership Of all Protestant church
organizations In the United States, arr
Row lending their strength to the ALI
ance which will carry on to its logica
conclusion the work of Attorney Gen
ersl Mitchell Palmer In awakening the
people of the nation 10 realization oi
their peril from the enemy within and
protecting the government with a firm
hand from those who sought to over.
throw 1t by force and violence
Americanism and Americanizatlon Ia
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 1t that q 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 Preside the overshadowing
Issue Of the future, regardless of poll
tics or politicians, there can be no step
backward now that the forward move
nsnt Ia on, and the man who appeals
Do them most strongly as measuring up
to the highest standard of American
ism and whose deeds are test-proof OF
bis high purpose to bring his whole
country to realization of the Hottest
ideals Of citizenship will receive their
undivided support in primary, election
and In the administration of his high
sf1ce.
Before the great campaign Of Amer
tcsnism to be undertaken by the Prot
sstant 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 Americanlsm.
The great hierarchy of the Roman
Catholic Church in the United States
lie heart and soul with the movement
for Amerfcanization and will lend its
full strength to the promotion through
the far-reaehing 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-fve 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:
Whatever may be the Industrial and
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 II there Is
neither Justification nor excuse under
eur form of government. Through the
ordinary and orderly processes Of sdu-
cation. organization and legislation all
social wrongs can be righted. While
these processes ut times may seem
Interestingly slow, they will achieve
more In the hnal result than violence
or revolution. The radicallsm 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 az an sx-
ample Of methods to be detssted and
avoided"
Thus the churches and their people
In the United States stand united in q
determined movement to look to the
future security OF the government OF
thsir country and the peace and hap
piness OF Its people. In this as In /
many similar movements which have
written history, II Is more a question /
Of the man than the measure.
The formation of the powerful ALL 4
ahce In the interchurch world move
nent 10 campaign against red radical
ism with Americanism is but another
preof that the American people have
made Inc issue of the day for the gov
eminent, for the church and for the /,
nation. II 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 a nationwide
survey. On their own account the
Of these 25OO0.OO0
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 ef-