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THE MENACE, AURORA, MISSOURI
Saturday, Jane 3, 1916
The Menace
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awaaiacathiaa. aa4 aiml all
raxliiaataa. la Ilia at
a4 aat ta aa I
laairWaaL
A atnrt aataoraara af tha afco al lloa
aa t in af aar ralrona a 1 II tatura amaiat
aaa wnu arrnra a a
Inva rartMillr altatanC
htanmhr that It nwta yoa lar aatra
at roar Manara aal la alacla rmiwr.
If far aa ntwi a aaaamarr
alla la aril aa rtataiaa kw ar
rtafe awaiatr' MMrtipiita a nn aaa
Mbaa aa aM AUUKKrM LAbl.L. a
law ina tritoa aa4 hl aaaiarr aa4
arailia a la ). laa aiaiirr taiairimi
atlaaiiaa. Tkx raqant t taiaarual.
Papal School Argument
T V. THU. C. WALKtB
I'BLJC aduratioa it fra and opea
fji to all, but ta.it. think tbey
ka I bava aomelhing tjetter in tba way
ifZ of Instruction, and pay extra
for priate .ind denominational
caching. Thry take ii-on thrmarlvr
tbia eitra lurlpn lecaue tba papul aro
rbial arbool they think iirrior hrsauie
it tearbea th. pupil to lc.ii,o Human
Catholw, while the fren piblir arbool in
concerned in nmkhin it pupil nit Con
tained Amrrifmn ritiina. The oLjut
and intr-nt of both )tcDii ia iltar and
unmiitakabla,
Oa aorount of thia will understood
rlifferenre, and brrkuac papiat. par tain
for the public arbool thry m.wt that not
being able to uar the public acboul, for
eonwienre pake, thry ouyht not to be
taxed for public ediiration, and the state
A Suspension
tlHcunwii U1U U laa lawa
-taaa w4 jiii ii i S a Sam.
ao MM Ik MM l 1 I HI ta (BPVf
wtata ear V nati i r fad
a tan. It-M. laa aa la an htn M
Ina la SU par raw. Taa in a)
tarra Ina Canal lull la aaaa rata
u lnm l.
Ma.sm.lS HaacaJniQW UHiltwuma)
1 1 aa.a a aw taw waaa-' aaaarrtauaa
a Taa .n laaaa aaea aaa a aaa
am aar amy Sat s mu a,
4MTUI C4ri tilU
. to aaa tl.nn. M
UK wrt-t of Ihk MiNAt tV autivea iu murinC and main
taining a large circulation in due, in a grtat niemurp, to cer
tain kjKtific rules which liac boon followed i-onxientlr
from the beginning.
To attempt to conduct Iiiimiic of tin magnitude with
out rvMcm in,l without certain htipulnted rul.-s would lie to
fail, and when we cIcum!.. from one of these rules in the
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and after e have reached the
ajr and the welfare of all concerned, in, Ming the men on the Firing
Jiie wIiom' inlerts are always first ctnisidered.
On many .vaions we have U-en nk.-.l the question. "How do vou
Puhlirl, such a iiaia-r an Tin: Mkna. e and furnish it to vour suhscribera
for .Tins f,.r forty wril.?" The nnwcr is that it can k. done only bv
i..u.ut.......,g an enormous cim.luti getting the ca in advance and
Bending it to no one f..r a longer time than actually paid for.
One of the Mi-ret of wruring this circulation is the fact that to ect
it for 8.w you mut mend at Iea4 a club of four at one time. Therefore
the low j.n.e make the large circulation .wiblc, aud at the came time
the large cut illation makes the ,,w prire jK.ssible.
If you think thia circulation problem ia not one of mathematics just
try it niii and you II change your mind, and if vou have anr plan where
by any change, can be made that will lower the'prioe or increase the cir
culation' without putting the paH-r in the hands of the receiver, just end
."? Vou ,h everlistinK Praiw of the whole staff.
W hile we cannot change the general plan of handling subscriptions
we are going to do something for a short time that should please everv
man on the J-ir.ng Line and make it easy for you to give the circulation
the biggest boost it linn had for several months.
KliOXI XOW UNTIL AFTKR THE (JEXERAL ELECTIOV IV
NOVEMBER WE ARE t;0IX( TO ALLOW YOU TO SEND SIV
GLE SUBSCRIPTIONS AT 25 CENTS.
That does not mean that you are not to continue to raise club-, and
jufl a big nut om you pottiblg can. but it does mean that we want everv
possible subscriber that we can get between now and election, and re do
not vant thtm to hart to rail for a tingle issue of the paper after thev
you their toney. If you get one, or two, or three, and don't
get the fourth one readily, send in what you have at 25 cents for each
name and we will see that they go on the lit for forty weeks the same
day they reach this oflit.
From now until after election the paer will be especially interest
ing to every American citizen who prizes his liberty and loves free in
stituUons and the information we will be able to give on the canipaien
alone will be worth several times the price of year's subscription
Not only that, but every man already on the list, whose time ia
about to expire, can send a single 25 cent piece and get his subscription
renewed without going to the trouble of raising a dub. We take it that
every reader who can possibly do so will devote some of his time help
ing ua increase Uie circulation the good of the cause, but this proposi
tion is made for the benefit of those who cannot.
Then, again, this plan should make it possible for the Annv to make
a clean sweep of subscriptions in a hurrv in order that new readers may
get in on the start of the great story, "The Black Prophet," now running
in the paper, which is going to prove to be the "Uncle Tom's Cabin" of
the patriotic movement.
Hundreds of men on the Firing Line have asked us to make this
concession during the hot summer months. We have yielded to their
request and are going to depend upon them to make hay while the sun
ahines.
Every man should pick out at least one victim and shoot him with
at least 25 cent's worth of Thi Menace 1
Wa ought to alack quarters around the book-keeper! desk ao be
Cjulda't pxtxadita feim$2X prtj election.
a e k4 esr U iWa part ef the '
Whams! am-awe. mad la) tefvse
U art ( tt
TVe twasiade sae af
IM. Laaua
ewwaal It atr Warm akl ip44
auvaa lawll af water ! eavh faa.
Uy free, wmiie laa Wfw fr the bmulJ
tn f a4 waulppa&f a4 saaietalauur ef
taa fraa water ijpia we. awd by pubis
tuaa. TW atar eurUy wm tamea tram
taa rttae aed aet aJaaT M para at it
mkt U tax Far this reamo ku;
f laa ciIiiiii arr4 fcoaarfcoij fittare
Bala) each luaa aa laa my casmU stfwf d
a growl litartaf e.'sUaB, Vara N.
Levi B)aW haa. Hi'aia, aowwrf, eaak
alia aad ethers tsmll oat at aa. New
Uaa people aaa waatt 1 a Uttr sup
ply af iita? arl ef gnawer purity wat
la eatr eaiarao ta meat their ewe Wee
Boost water. No auf oaa I bra fvrple
wba ehw to pat laaemarl.ee la thi nin
expraee aaould laaat that lby be paid
oat of the water faa4 their Ul av.aey
which they funuald U build Ua public
Tketa aa kar bara r U io btmml
Uit UjuatMW vaa doaa thaav, but I am
mtac ajsusa asd la ray Mt aaauaj coat.
aura l mm 1 r. kjavim rail aa auenvoa ia
a WW MW ams'aw ma awpa va
trttHi firea, itk Iraraad mirar
trurttv Brra.
ratea, vaa a Matter
to ba coai.Vra.1. 1
aal. tb poor I1 watrf brvogbt
10 laeir door,
Hut atiihlBliog tae (orTJ mad
aerraaary lirarfita la woo wer Jia-
aai-nrj .... tba oV.ty aad tha aai-'
Bun
wkII, UuJt runeraa aa4 erertej flllar at !
quantity af city wnw due Ibeir :
'weir owi aiprnra. Of eouraa tbry eota
I'laioed of tba laxea aad Ik. poor Water
. - I .1 1 j . . ... m
! water astern, but i. a, raa. did any
,nM Bv tba temerity to ak for a ,
rfuuioa of tkt mater tas atoae. bervutt
f pmatt pumps, mtUt. und euterti. that r-mally vile, damnable and
Why theahouUtW.kooloWyU:,-7,r,' T,M MlSACf- ieh
d.ri.lrd beeauro of ,..,! .ura. and ! "'TJ' I"""? V. 'T'
.11. of knoaMge wirke-l bv aun. and j f. .'".l.'."".",. t' tl"' 0OUBUf;
other unpaid hrwer. of 'wood and ' J 1 1 1 IWenea LMgue
Irtm.f I'M orKMiiit l.v the biyoia and liar
tTI ,.L 1 .v . ,. '"""J Ti. MLS.ua and wb,-
Bout.n.tior.l Khool w.th knowle-lja, ta',b Tm( m . f "J
.? 71 A ,pr'.'"" 11 Dk'!'i 't ppr to o,mi the h..;i
neer made a demand for public vhool I. ...... . ' u.A...... V... i,v ...
oemana Ior pui.nc a. aooi ,
, nionr-y or iboubt for a moment that any i
injuM.ce wa. .lone them. They are too ,
honct aud loo K.md a eitiiea to do
Ilia iMihlir rbmil 0tet11 ijuU out tkt
Urea of reroluliona, and m.urc lb. re-
public auamn tha deatructnc force, of
Ijnorani-a and euiertitioa and Amer
ica will never euUtitute papal parochial
ewiAriaa .vitt nt of education for iu free
erhoole for the tnaaapa.
N if you doa like th. free water,
(0 to it, and df jour own well and aet
your aun to pumping and ba thankful
that you bare a place to and a .bare
in tha Irt-orfiti of a vtcm of Khcol.
and government toe brtt ia the aorld.
If the ie 1. o ditrced oter tha
urTerinc ' hi. "children" ia this war,
why hun't he eo inlluenced them aa to
keep them out of it. Quaker, are cicnacd
from military aerrice hecauna of their
Cnume conmrietit.ou actuplca aeainut it.
If Itoman ('a').nlic. hd anv uch
acruplra they would be reeclcd by
every Kuropn power.
"I Florida in HuMiai""crr.k. a
papist editor. No, most illuslriou.
"father"; Florida is jjt a little bit
more on the map of America than ever.
of the Rules
H "one alter unit Ii UclilK ration
iROME AND
Futile Attempts of the Roman Catholic Press to Meet the Issue by Abuse.
Bluster and Bluff If Rome is Sincere. Let Her Demand Prose
cution That We May Present Our Proofs, Othemise
She Should Keep Still
9 TV. rrm riaai Dafaaa
The prtitiun hirh the Krra
Pmi IVfcn Lrgu rrrntd to
PmirK-nt Wilou and to rath
I'tiitcJ Mati-a arnator and rrpre
rutatitf, rarlr in Ajn!, ha re
ceived fmin tlir Koiuan Catholic
rr, the tnatmrct tiua!!j a
tirdnl aerioua pnptaa1i to intetti-
' t!itiial Kofiuu-
j If m.
Ue hate alrradr railed attention
to the rrtine1 and rulturel wav in
JT vl .Nea rl-an, 7 Joraiaj
."or, notirt-! thin petition, but the
editorial a to urutlv rharaiter
itic of the pint of the t'mn
I pre, in ta-e like the prrnt when
. . . t
! J're Df f? pr-liti-n an3
iniamt-a tnai it auuene ejum-i
MuxW r and blurf, it can dm ite tlic
- I lilililn- tint In rriinnlinv tlia fi.l
h'win' extract a it apiearel in
' Mumng ttar of April ith:
Thia danmaMe, lying petitioa
printed mm two wrvk mo on the Unit
i "a " aaa a imjiulivu. 1 ii ji r. .-w ai m
v,u.n ,B aNk,tutoia. 1
j,.,,, knQmmg ,h,t thm ,,,,,
me,ltrly .tamp the peutioi
,Bt lt U if it wrr- IB
lit wuulj ini
ioD for tht) lie
a. - . tL.t .a
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p.ju. to put it forward under another
.- thn iu own. Whaa th.. - amid
no oiora need ba written, for tba source
of tha petition marks the lie.
Is not that characteristic of
the Roman Catholic press, in the
presence of anything that serious
ly challenges politico-ecclesiastical
Romanism? And is it not equally
characteristic of those who know
their cause is too weak to bear the
searchlight of impartial investiga
tion? Now what did the Free Press
Iefense Icague do, to tall forth
Mich a choice assortment of billings
gate as is f.i.ind in the alsive extract
from the off trial organ of the arch'
diiH-fne of Xew Orleans? Merely
this; it set forth certain facts with
a great deal of particularity relat
ing to the activity of representatives
of the Roman Catholic hierarchy,
and political or clerical Romanists
of the United States ami Mexico;
which indicated the presence of a
gigantic conspiracy for the over
throw of the government of a sister
republic which had been duly rec
ognized by our government, and it
asked the president and congress to
investigate these allegations. The
Iicague had come into jvssession of
certain facts which it felt to be so
gravely important that the govern
ment would be warranted in having
them investigated, and it. therefore,
ailed for such investigation.
We later pointed out the fact that
if the Roman Catholics were sin
cere in holding that there was noth
ing in the allegations of our peti
tion, they should join with us in
asking for an investigation. That
would certainly be the surest way
of exposing the falsity of the posi
tion by the League, but it is so
much easier to resort to such choice
epithets as "damnable lying," "vile
bigots" and "liars," than to meet
the allegations in a way worthy of
reasonable beings conscious of a
just cause, and it waa so much
safer to resort to abusive epithets
than to demand a rigid investiga
tion of the truth or falsity of the
charges.
Now comes Our Sunday Visitor,
a Roman Catholic weekly of lim
ited circulation, and published at
Huntington, Indiana, by one Fa
ther Joh." F. Noll, w ith the follow
ing silly, but very characteristic
editorial twaddle, which appears
under the title of "The Latest
Calumny."
Tha deceptie league of a few as.fi
Ckriftiaa., obKuring their real aim un
der the highly patriotic name of "Free
Pre Defena League,'' ha. eneulariied
eongreM with a printed coatmvsicatioii,
alleging that tha Catholic hierarchy of
tha United State ha been engaged ac
tiraly for a whole year ia fomenting a
sew rerolutioa ia Meiico, and demand
ing aa inTeatigation. Thi. i. obrioudy
dona to etir np new religiou. bigotry in
view of the political campaig-n which will
eoon be on. Now, we hare repeatedly
ahowa that the "Free Preea Defm
League" i. a misnomer. The men behind
it are Socinfuru, and the fund it solicit,
are for foeiclut propaganda. The charge
made la thi. circular has aof ( ttiffktrst
foundation ta fact, and we herewith offer
the "Free Pre) Defense League"
1 1,000 for proof.
Sad Fruit of Catholic Education
Before noticing the statement in
the above, which has direct bearing
on the question at issue, we wish to
point out some peculiarities in the
above statement, merely as an inter
eating and typical illustration pf
THE LEAGUE'S PETITION
the failure of parochial or Roman
Catholic education to develop the
very .desirable scientific spirit which
has a decent regard for accuracy
and the wholesome respect for ve
racity that we would naturally ex
pert in one who pretends to be a
religious teaiher.
In Dr. Noll's utterance quoted
above, there are not les than fie
inaccurate, misleading, or absolute
ly fahe statements made by the
"reverend father."
He Mates that "the di-e;.tive
league of a few anti-Christians ob
scuring their real aims, etc.," cir
cularized congress with printed
communications. Now a league
whose sustaining m uilerhip runt
up into the Uns of thousands of
i rons each having paid from 41.00
upward a year; a l.ii;iie who? mes
sages are w.t kly read by from three
to four million patriotic citizens,
rould not lie accurately dct ribed by
the word "few." It" will be next
observed that the priest character
izes the membership of the league
as anti-Christian. Now, of course,
if his "religious prejudi.-e and big
otry" are of the same brain as that
of Pope IJciicdict XV, who last No
vember referred ti the great Prot
estant divines and teachers in
Rome, a" "emissaries .f Satan,"
"thieves' and "liar." (See Boston
Pilot. IW. ., l:U5. then he
doubtless will claim the eighty-five
million non-Roman Catholic's of
this republic as anti-Christian, and
if ao we can understand that he
could with equal propriety refer to
the membership of the league as
anti-Christian, but if he is not so
narrow, bigoted aud blindeO by
priestly prejudice, as to imagine
that the fourteen million Roman,
Catholics in America are the only
Christiana, then his statement is
false and misleading, as the vast ma
jority of the members of the Free
Press Defense league are active
members of various leading Prot
estant churches, not a few being
prominent clergymen and educators.
They are highly intelligent men
and women of many faiths, but all
are a unit in passionate devotion to
the Constitution of the Unit!
States, and the fundamental pro-,
visions and bulwarks of our free in
stitutions. Father Noll says we circularized
congress with a printed communi
cation. For his information we
would state that typewritten copies
of the petition similar to that pre
sented to President Wilson were
sent to every member of the United
States Senate and House of Repre
sentatives. Again the Remau priest tells his
renders, gravely, but rocklesslthat
"we have repeatedly shown thtfFrce
Tress Defense league is a mis
nomer. The men behind it are
Socialists and the funds it solicits
are for Socialist propaganda." Here
again the good father Defrays that
deplorable luck of accuracy that is
so fatal a characteristic of paroch
ial training. What he would have
said, had he been governed by a
sensible appreciation of the "im
portance of accuracy, would have
been this. "We have repeatedly
DESIRED to show." ne did not
show it, for the simple reason that
the Free Press IVfense Ieague is
precisely what is claims to be. But
we are told that the men behind it
arc Socialists. Now we think it
is perfectly safe to say that not one
tenth of the members are directly
or indirectly affiliated with Social
ism. That there are Socialists in
the League, just as there are Re
publicans, Democrats, Prohibition
ists, just as there are Baptists,
Presbyterians, Methodists and Lu
therans, is true, but to try to con
vey the idea that the Free Tress
Defense League is a Socialist or
ganization, any more than it is a
Republican, Democratic, Methodist
or Baptist organization, ia ta dAib
erately seek to mislead. The officers
of the League by a singular chance
well typify the cosmopolitan char
acter of our organization. The
president, vice-president and secretary-treasurer,
each belong and
have for years belonged to different
political parties. One has for many
years been a staunch Jeffersonian
Democrat, another has been a prom
inent Republican, while the third
is a Socialist, and in religious faith
they hold different views. But here
again, like the membership of the
League, all are a unit for uphold
ing our federal constitution and the
great fundamental principles and
theories of thia mighty Protestant
democracy, including freedom of
speech, press, assembly, popular
non-sectarian schools, and absolute
divorce between church and state.
.Next we come fo tha surprising
statement, or rather statement that
would be surprising if it were not
found in a Roman Catholic weekly,
edited by a product of Roman
Catholic education, that "the funds.
it solicits are for Socialit propa-
fanda." Now either Father Noll
new when he penned that state
ment that he was rrrUeaaly saying
something about which be knew ab
solutely nothing, or he knew A rw
deliberately maiiny an vnqwilified-
f false statement. In either event
the example this affords of the ef
fect of Roman Catholic educational
training will not commend itself to
honest, truth loving, and intellect
ually hospitable children of our
splendid public school system.
The Point at Issue
This brings us to the statement
of Father Noll relating to the pe
tition of the lA'ugue. In view of
the nurvnd father's ideas of ac
curacy and verity, as aecn above, the
reader will not be surprised when
he finds the priest charging that
the petition imw "has Hot the slight
est foundation in 'act. We hereby
offer the Free Press Defense Lt-ague
1,000.00 for proof."
S.me year ago a Wall Street
sjeu!ator alio suddenly acquired
great wealth was accustomed to re
ply alien unvone sought to dis
prove Mime theory advamvd or some
statcmeut he made, "1 Ut you a
million dollars," it soon became ap
parent that the gentleman spoke in
strictly Pickwickian sense, and no
one took him seriously, indeed, "I
bet you a million dollars, became
a slang term of the streets and in
the metropolitan press. Certain
cheap notoriety seekers among the
Itoman Catholics, hoping to be able
to escape meeting the issue by im
posing impossible conditions, or de
manding juries for rendering de
cisions, that in the nature of the
case could not be expec ted to return
impartial verdicts, seized upon this
cheap and silly method in order to
escape facing damaging facts, evi
dence and issues which they were
not willing to meet in the frank
and democratic way.
A typical example of just what
happens when a person dignifies
such people by noticing them, was
well illustrated a few weeks ago in
the case of the distinguished author
of the brilliant new novel, "The
Black Prophet," and priest Clancy,
of Corvallis, Oregon. Father Clan
cy had made one of those character
istic attacks of the Romanists upon
Protestants, which voiced the spirit
of Rome from the Vatican down,
Mr. riielps, the novelist, promptly
took up the guage for Protestant
ism, challenging the priest to de
bate the issues of the two systems
through the columns of the local
paKr. The priest accepted the
challenge, but with a Jesuitical res
ervation, ottering to debate the
question J'KON IPED that he led
. . . .
the debate and that the judges were
appointed to pass on all matter
nr.tOKh it was printed. This was
so clearly a dodire to prevent the
truth about the Catholic church 1
rrom coming out, that when
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facts were noted by the novelist, the
priest was covered with confusion
Mr. Phelps, however, was not con
tent to let the matter rest and
crowded the "father" to the wall, so
to speak, and then he received the
usual bluff of the $1,000.00 reward
offered by Hie Sunday VUitor, this
reward was to be paid if Mr. Fhelps
could prove three out of six propo
sitions. The author of "The Black
Prophet" proniDtlv accented the
challenge and called for judges 0f
the debate. THAT WAS TnEi
LAST HEARD OF THE TRIEST.
The bluff failed, and being afraid
to meet the record of the papal sys
tem, the "father" went into hiding.
Another characteristic example of
this cheap method of those who
dare not meet charges before the
bar of reason, in a congressional
investigation or in the court, was
in evidence in 1914, when some
Romanists published a similar chal
lenge in reference to six proposi
tions relating to the teachings of
Rome, and the alleged teachings
and practices of Romanists in
America. The .Mexack of May
9th. 1914, published this challenge
in detail, and then proceeded to
prove the truth of every statement
which The Menace had made. It
devoted more than two pages to a
complete vindication of its state
ments, after which it said:
"Nov since re hare proved
enough to entitle The Menace to
the thousand dollari at the Mus
kogee bank it becomes necessary for
us to say r don't want the money,
for it is tainted, ve want no money
filched from the unpaid labor of
girls, in Houses of the Qeoi SXsp-
kerf Zarwwirvt. 1f - mcn
y -ij:4 from tit T-oor ly fat
frritlt fci 114 HaftA. lf Vt tve
money rot J iy dufi for tha fe
evrewsM nw. li'e treat
money of any kmd that eomet from
tha ccjera of Rome, for it is blood
monry ground from tha lodaj of
thi poor ami ignorant."
Alter the publication cf this
luminous and circumstantial reply
to each charge made tn the chal
lenge nothing more was beard of
the challenge from the fcjnan
Catholics who had reported to'this
cheap method to try to evade square
ly facing the issue.
Rome and tba Leagrit'f Petition
Every intelligent American
knows that if Rome was conscious
of innocence in relation to the al
leged conspiracy so circumstantial
ly put forth in its petition to the
president, that the "pnps of the
I hierarchy would have quickly d
manded a congressional investiga
tion that would have vindicated po-
litn-al luiraanism and discredited
the league. The lirague gathered
its facts with care, lt stood ready.
an1 stand, ready to furnish its
proof to congress or the courts, and
it docs not ask anv reward. Now if
Father Noll speaks the truth when
he savs that there ia "not the alight-
est inundation in lacf, in our
charges, let him or the hierarchy
ask the government to prosecute,
then they trill get all the proof they
Kant and a great deal more.
The League petitioned the presi
dent and congress in good faith.
Many of its allegations have since
become history. Many others have
been published as news matter fil
iating to what is contemplated, but
which probably largely because of
the eiNsures made by the league
has uot become history. No one
know better than politico-ecclesiastical
Romanism that the Ieague
sjx.kc by the cards.
Hence, the eloquent silence of the
hiera.rhy. Hence, the hysteria, the
abusive epithets, and the cheap
bluster and bluff of the Roman
Catholic press.
A K. C. Convention
A eo ires pon deat, who ia alert and
watchful, think that If the preennt plans
of papist politiciana prevail tha Demo
cratic national eonrentioa will look more
and ba more lik. a convention of tha
Kniuht of Columbu. than a political
convention of a great party. While that
may be putting It rather strong, th.
papal knight who are delegate, at large
fmm MaaMvchiiastta, with the pre son re of
Glynn and O'Oormkn from New York,
and a hnt of Knight of Columhua ia
other delegation afford bo small baaia
for inch a conclusion.
One thing i. certain: tha pope's
knights, and other papal politiciana, have
been remarkably .uccesaful in capturing
commanding pluco on almost all of th
delegation. It i unlikely that they will
attempt the defeat of Wilson, who will
probably ba nominated without opposi
tion; but every effort wfll ba made to
hedge him about with papist in control
of the party organization and as can
didate for place of aecondary but im
portant consequence.
Former Governor Glynn, of New York,
i said to be the orator chosen to deliver
the party 'a kernota addrea. Our read
era are familiar with the way Glynn
alipped into the lieutenant Rovernorahip
of New York, and then attained to the
governorship through the Koman Cath
olic plotting against Bulier. Thi ia a
favorite method of the enemy: to place
their man in the office of lieutenant with
1k. knu A ,,r.n.;i. kin. .Ilk t k. .A.
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moral of the .uperior officer.
A aimilar attempt ia now being made
In Pcnnsvlvania, where McClain, the
lieutenant governor is a Roman Catholic
aud a Knight of Columbu. Roma's
fow ""d "' T threatening Govern
VI a uuMiau(u e ii u VJiif'aM. niiiv-iib. a 4
t J t. ...I...!. -11 t,.H am
p;jrt at the head of iu atata edmini-
t ration.
In keeping with the same line of pro
cedure, certain political Bomanbrta are
industriously promoting a vice-preal-dential
boom for Roger C Sullivan,
of Illinois. Among tha argument
offered in behalf of hia choice are that
he nominated Wilaon at Baltimore; that
he i. well aupplied with coin; that he i.
from the pivotal date of Illinoi.; that
he can command the Irish vote; that he
i. in a position to swing a large part of
the German vote; and that, because of
theee ruliar qualifications, he meet,
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IVnocraUl of the failed Plate do aot
wua ta rwa th risk of subjecting thia
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National Convention
Wa hcrvt'V beg to anaouar that tr.S
Natmaa Coa vent ina ef tha Americaa
Federatina of Patriotic (Vcietiee which
wa tettatively aanquBced last year for
Fittahurgh for May, 1016, will be held
instead at the hiaaoale Temple, Minna
apol". Minaeeota, July Zt. ii. It, 191.
Minneapolis baa earned tha nam of
"City Beautiful" and la ia every way
equipped to handle large convent ion and
eitetid every convenience and eourteay
to them. The patriota may ba fully
assured of the rota wwJcome and treat
ment they eo well cVaerve. Remember
brother, thia i. aa important year and aa
eiceedingly critical time la our country's
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P. J. RsTKOUm, .Vol "I. Fret.
C W. Bias, AaiX Sre'v.
A. F. P. a
"Can any fair-minded American find
fault with u. if .we raai-t the demand, of
our eonacience in our owa war, wilaoaf
mslina on cent from slats or ettu, or
from any man who doc not approve our
courset " ask Komma Catholic. Bishop
Curlry in an extended discourse on the
advantage, of Roma 'a parochial achoola.
No. No fair-minded man could or would
object if tha fact are what the wily
bishop would Imply la hi question. The
fact ia that papist, are plotting, plan
nrng, and working, wherever there i. any
prospect of .ueceee, to get publie fund,
to use la tha npport of their alleged
school. They are paraltently active in
tha effort to get publie money from tha
federal, tha .tat., and th. municipal gov
ernment to maintain their sectarian in
.titutiona. And that ia precisely what
fair minded patriota object to and will
continue to object to.
"Tha land of floral bloom blighted by
bigota." "Bigota ia Florida gone
atark mad." "General Mile, and tha
Guardian, of Liberty and area enemy ef
the South." "Palled tha constitution of
the Cnited Church aad ordered the ar
rest of three noble white aister. of the
Catholic church." "The Free Pre. De
fense league, The Mrkaci, Bishop Burl
Uieae bigota." Such are a few cf
tha choice phrase, culled from column,
of hysterical cry about Florida in the
Koman Catholic Morning star. And all
because the substantial citizens of Flor
ida are beginning to line up, shoulder to
shoulder, in aelf defense against popery
and its meddling politiciana.
We "l,igote," who are ao unreason
able aa to object to the attempt to eub
Mitute the papal for the democratic .ye
tem of government, can now know what
i the matter with ua. We "are chronio
office seeker." This must be ao be
cause the Homing Star saya so; and the
Unrs!s7 Star make, no mistakes sinre
It is the great organ of the "infallible"
pope. Of course tha Roman Catholics
tire wholly free from bigotry because
none of them seek office! You never
knew ef a Knight of Columbu. seeking-
office, did yout Pid yout Did yout
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