Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-06
Ask Intervention
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tect it from servile submission to
despotic authority" At the same
time the council urged the supreme
board of directors to asses the mem
bership of the organization $1,000
coo for a campaign of education, to
the end that the politics of Soviet
Russia shall be eliminated from the
philosophy of American life and the
ideals of liberty, of conscience and
, democratic freedom may extend to our
afflicted fellow human beings beyond
the Rio Grande."
The religious situation in Mexico
as it affects the Catholic church was
considered one of the most important
questions before the convention and
had been under consideration since
it convened last Monday. The text
of the statement in part follows:
THE Knights of Columbus in an
nual supreme convention assembled,
- having viewed with delibera-
ton and care the present political
situation in the neighboring govern
ment Of Mexico, hereby solemnly aver
that we would be neglectful of our
duty If we did not register an un-
qualified protest against the policy of
President Gales upon his recent des-
potic use of the armed force of the
military regime in expressing the
vast majority of the people of Mexico
who are struggling for the right TO
tates of their conscience.
1--WE call the attention of the Ameri-
can government to remind it that the
representatives of Gales have insult
ed and degraded and expelled Ameri-
can citizens, American men and wo-
men, by means that are abhorrent to
constitutional government.
I'VE warn our fellow American cit
liens that they cannot endure at their
very doorstep, with impunity. the
Outstanding of Mexico. The Soviet
philosophy controls the military
powers of Mexico. The family to
them is myth and marriage a de-
graduation. They have robbed 1t of
it's sanctity. Their conception of
God is contempt for all religions.
Ministers of all religions are denied
the right to exercise their sacred
functions: professions and vocations
are prohibited: the right to take sa-
cred vows for the service of God is
denied; freedom of conscience is ille-
gal: freedom of the press. freedom of
petition, freedom of speech and law
full assemblage to present grievances
of the people are denied and forbid
den: freedom of education is denied:
industrial liberty Is impossible: in
tolerance is denied: confiscation and
spoliation of property are justified;
constitutional and orderly govern
ment are unknown; liberty, justice
and right have been assassinated by
the Red rulers of Mexico; Commun-
ism in principle. precept and practice
is made the order of the day. While,
on the other hand, as enunciated in
the declaration Of independence and
the constitution of the United States,
life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
mess is the ideal and practice;
"This system in Mexico has been
created under American auspices,
sustained by American executive au-
thority, which, in the first place,
while refusing to recognize Lenine
and Trotzky, have, by executive or
der of recognition, accepted Gales
and Obregon, who are the enthusi-
astic supporters of the Bolsheviki
concept of government. We further
point to the significance of the pat
ronage bestowed upon these military
despots by the continuance of such
recognition. and particularly, by the
discriminating favoritism shown to
Gales by the continuance Of the en-