# Facts for Patriotic Americans

The former President Wilson's private secretary was a Roman Catholic.

Over 70 per cent of all appointments made by President Wilson were Catholics. Under President Taft the percentage was about the same.

Five States now have Catholic administrations.

A majority of the States have Roman Catholic National Committeemen.

Twenty thousand public schools have one-half Catholic teachers.

Three thousand public schools now contribute a part or all of the school tax to Catholic churches and schools.

Six hundred public schools use Catholic readers and teach from them the Roman Catholic catechism.

Sixty-two per cent of all offices of the United States, both elective and appointive, are now held by Roman Catholics.

New York City, Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo, St. Louis, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston now have 75 per cent Catholic teachers in their public schools.

In all the cities and towns of the United States of 10,000 or more inhabitants, an average of over 90 per cent of the police force are Roman Catholics.

Roman Catholics are in the majority of the councils of 15,000 cities and towns of the United States.

In 90 per cent of the cases where criminals are executed for crimes committed, the victims of the executions have a priest at their elbow to administer the last sacrament.

Over 65 per cent of the prison convicts of all grades and of all kinds of prisoners are Roman Catholics, while less than 5 per cent are graduates of our public schools.

These statements are astounding when we remember that only about 12¼ per cent of the entire population of the United States are Roman Catholics, while the other 87½ per cent are not.

90 per cent of officials and employees in New York State are said to be Catholics including Governor Alfred E. Smith.

17,000,000 Catholics.

89,000,000 Protestants in U. S.

West Point and Annapolis dominated by Catholics.

The man who shot Roosevelt was a Roman Catholic.

The man who shot President McKinley was a Roman Catholic.

The man who shot President Garfield was a Roman Catholic.

The man who shot President Lincoln was a Roman Catholic.

The plot that took the life of Lincoln emanated from Roman Catholic influence in the house of a Roman Catholic.

The assassins of Mayor Harrison of Chicago and Mayor Gaynor of New York City, were Roman Catholics.

The Chicago car-barn bandits, the McNamara brothers and those connected with them who destroyed the Times-News publication building at Los Angeles, the bridge dynamiters of the United States and the bomb throwers of Chicago, so far as their identity is known, are Roman Catholics.

Above facts are taken from "Washington Bureau of Statistics."

The above should be sufficient evidence to open the eyes and conscience of every true American citizen.

No more cunning plot was every divulged against the intelligence, the freedom, the happiness and virtue of mankind than Romanism.

—WILLIAN EWART GLADSTONE

The Pope had he the power would employ fire and sword against us. For that reason I expell the Jesuits from Germany.

—BISMARK.

I don't pretent to be a prophet, but though not a prophet, I see a very dark cloud on our horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome. It is filled with tears of blood. The true motive power is secreted behind the thick walls of the Vatican. The colleges and schools of the Jesuits, the convents of the Nuns and the confessional boxes of the church of Rome.

—ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

A check for $400,000 was delivered by the Y. M. C. A. to Robert H. Tyndall, national treasurer of the American Legion. There may be a second payment of $100,000 when the final accounting of the canteen profits is received from France.

The check will be deposited as a trust fund with the Fletcher-American National Bank of Indianapolis, which is to be named trustee, and the income from it will be used for the benefit of disabled soldiers.

The figures below give the estimated strength and cost of overseas work done by the organizations named:

<table><thead><tr><th rowspan="2">United war<br>work drive</th><th colspan="2">Cost per<br>Hut</th><th colspan="2">Number<br>of Cost per<br>Sec'tys</th></tr><tr><th>Hut</th><th>Sec'tys</th><th>Hut</th><th>Sec'tys</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Y.M.C.A.</td><td>$100,000,000</td><td>1600</td><td>$62,500</td><td>$16,666</td></tr><tr><td>K. of C.</td><td>30,000,000</td><td>150</td><td>200,000</td><td>700</td><td>42,858</td></tr><tr><td>S'v't'n Army</td><td>3,500,000</td><td>45</td><td>77,000</td><td>186</td><td>18,817</td></tr></tbody></table>

The statistics are eloquent in that they show conclusively the injustice of the greater part of the criticism directed against the Y. M. C. A. during the war. The Y. M. C. A. is a great organization, it did a great work, and it now turns over to the American Legion its surplus for the benefit of disabled soldiers.

In view of the above, let us take note of what the Knights of Columbus are doing along the same line. The daily papers recently have been exploiting the fact that the aforesaid organization has $7,000,000 left over. (Note: When the United War Work Drive went over the top to the extent it did the Knights of Columbus received in addition about $7,000,000.) This surplus is being used by them in conducting schools, etc. Of course there is nothing in such a line of action that tends to glorify the Roman Catholic Church.

"If the Church should direct the Catholic citizens of this American Republic to abolish the Constitution, the liberty and the very existence of their country as a sovereign state, they are bound by a divine ordinance to obey."

—Bronson's Quarterly Review, in the Outlook of Freedom, pp. 291-292.

"Every Catholic whose actions are ruled by the faith he professes is a born enemy to the State, since he finds himself bound in conscience to contribute as far as in him lies to the subjection of all nations and all kings to the Roman Pontiffs."

—See Vol. 2, p. 265, W. Arthur's "The Pope, the Kings and the People."

"When a Catholic candidate is on the ticket and the opponent is a non-Catholic, let the Catholic candidate have the vote, no matter what he represents."

—Catholic Review, July, 1894.

"The day is not far distant when Catholics at the order of the Pope will refuse to pay the school tax and will send bullets into the breasts of the officials who attempt to collect them."

Mnr. Cappell.

"The supreme duty of Catholics is to obey the Pope, and seeking every way, and especially by means of the ballot, to render the Catholic policy effective in this country."

—"The Catholic World," New York, July, 1870.

The Catholic Church denies the right of free conscience, free speech, free press and the right to worship according to the dictates of conscience. It forbids its own people to read the Bible and declares that no person has a right to entertain opinions on religious questions that do not emanate from the Catholic clergy or church. **Two Mighty World Theories of Government in Deadly Conflict;** for the last above outline is opposed to the Declaration of Independence in our Federal Constitution.