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SERVICE FLAGS IN NATIONAL COLORS FOR BUSINESS OR PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE Prooably nothing so encourages support of the National Array as the personal touch added to all walks of life through Service Flags. Business houses and individuals should have these flags printed in National Colors on their stationery. To individuals we send 100 bond paper note-heads (size 5Kx8to) and fifty envelopes, to match, each carrying the Service Flag, in, National Colors, nothing more, for only $1.25. Business firms may have them added when having printing done here at an extra charge of $1.00 for the first thousand letter-beads when only two impressions are necessary and an extra charge of $1.50 for the first thousand when three Impressions are required. Always state the number you have in the service. Get our figures on job work. TnB Menace. This is Nunfter 337 ftprllS.tU furora MlsMurl Sept. 28, 1918 Fall Into The Trenches Now! I L : : I ST MABTO BBOWlf I HEN reference is made in these men on the "Firing Line," enough at heart to want to it sustained bad 'enough direction. They might be referred to as of nearly a million readers there are approximately a hundred thousand men and women who do the work of sustaining the paper's circulation. On their shoulders rests the responsibility of this movement the greatest movement ever inaugurated on this old globe. This may seem like an extravagant statement, but it is made in the light of experience and the testimony of thousands of patriots throughout the country who believe, and tell me with all sincerity, that if Tins Menace should cense to exist the entire movement would collapse, at least for this generation. . Whether that is true or not, however, is not the question. The question is, ARE WE GOINO TO SAVE AMERICA FOR AMER ICANS, OR ARE WE GOING TO CAPITULATE AND TURN IT OVER TO TIIE DISCIPLES OP THAT OLD PETTICOATED FRAUD OVER ON TIIE BANKS OF TIIE TIBER? That's plain English--and probably a little crude but plain Eng lish is the easiest understood, and if I understand anything at all about what we are fighting for, that is the question at issue right now. If I am talking to anybody who don't know by this time that the Roman Catholic corporation is out to grab this country politically and convert it into nothing moro or less than a papal kingdom, I wish they would turn to some other part of the pnprr and read something else, for I haven't time to argue the question now. I am addressing this to the red blooded men and women of our sub scription list who don't need any preaching to about the hellishness of the Roman Catholic machine, but who simply need to be reminded that, while they are the salt of this movement, if the salt should lose its savor the movement would be dead. You arc all livo wires; you are all in earnest; but like myself and every other person who is trying to do any good in this old world you are head and ears in work of every conceivable kind and don't always remember to lo your bit for Tub Menace. This is to remind you that the time has come when wo must all get into the harness for just a little Vhilo and give the circulation a boost or something is going to happen that won't bo pleasant to hear about. We have some big things ahead of ua for tho fall and winter months. In fact we are going to tell you about something next week that will keep U9 busy for the next several weeks to come. This being true it is not likely that I will have space to talk circulation again before the holidays, and I am anxious that every friend of the paper who has ever done anything for circulation in the pact, who wants to do it now or expects to do it in the future, GET BUSY AND DO IT NOW START BEFORE YOU LAY THIS PAPER DOWN, by at least making a resolution that you will do it at once! The Menace isn't worth n continental without a big circulation. Not only that, but wo would have to work just as hard and take just as much pains with an issue of a hundred copies as we would with a mil lion. Then why not print tho million ami get the proper results from our efforts? 1 The fall elections are soon nt hand. That is tho time to swat papal candidates for office. Let's bo prepared to give them the swatting of their lives. All that is necessary is to reach the voters with, TriE Menace, and the only tray wo can reach them is for you to get their subscriptions. With two hundred thousand new subscribers before the elections, with what we already have, we can unhorso every papal politician in America and get a long way ahead of the pope's hounds in our campaign to make this country the kind of a country our patriot fathers intended that it should be. I have made up my mind that this can be done in two weeks. A big job, did you say? Yes and no. It is a big job, and it will put con sternation into the camps of the enemy, but there aro no jobs too big for The Menace Ahmy. Listen to tho" way it is to bo dono: With an Army of a hundred thousand workers who are still alive on our roll of honor that is those who have been heard from with a list of subscribers within the last six months wo certainly ought to have fifty thousand who will respond, without waiting, to a call for help as imperative and as necessary ob is this one. The subscription rate is one dollar a year, or fifty cents a year when four or more arc sent at one time. Every one of you will want to take advantage of the club rate, which means that fifty thousand of you will send four suits each on this call, AND THAT MEANS TWO HUN DRED THOUSAND NEW NAMES! To make this easy for you I have caused a special subscription blank to be inserted in this copy of your Menace. Don't let it get away from you, but put it in your pocket now and go out and get four names to go on it. If you can't find four men who will give up fifty cents each to help sustain the greatest cause that ever inspired a patriotic people since tho beginning of time, take the nomcs of as many friends a3 you need to make out tho list of four and pay for them yourself. Pick fellows who arc dead asleep as was Rip Van Winkle, and then watch them take tho jerks and come to the first time tho postman leaves a copy of The Menace in their mail box. Many of us have piddled around all summer and done nothing but rub our eyes, yawn and wonder when the war will be over. We could have utilized less than one day of the time we have wasted and paid for four subs to The Menace and never missed it. But the piddling time is over. This is tho time to get into the harness and do something. The war will never end and humanity will never be freo if wo who know our duty piddle oway our time and fail to perform it. This is the ago of giving; it is tho age of sacrifice; money is worth nothing unless tho right to life, liberty and tho pursuit of happiness can be attained and mado permanent You are all going to do vour part for the government, and you are soon going to clean out that little corner of Hell known ns Germany; BUT IN THE MEANTIME YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO LET THE POPE OF ROME KINDLEvAN OTHER HELL IN THIS COUNTRY, even a bigger one than we found over there. , You can prevent it by doing your bit NOW, and that is all I am ask ing you to do when I ask you to take the enclosed subscription blank and get four new subscribers to The Menace. I don't want anybody to got more than four if they don't care to, BUT I DO WANT FIFTY THOU SAND OF YOU TO GET AT LEAST FOUR AND MAIL THEM TO THIS OFFICE WITHIN TEN DAYS FROM THE RECEIPT OF THIS ISSUE. You have never disappointed mo before, and I have no feeling in my bones that yon are going to do it now. In fact I have ordered tho foreman of the mailing room to get ready to put on two hundred thou eand new names within tho next ten days, and he tells me that he will do his part if The Menace Abmt will do theirs, and I have promised uun ui uib a.imj win owner me goous. TALL7NTO THE TRENCHES NOW I columns from time to time to the we mean those who have the cause we it sustained, and who want to 6ee to actually do some work in that the "immortal ten per cent," for cut Undemocratic! The London Tele graph eays: "The largest compact and homogeneous Roman Catholic community in the world is in Ger many. There are more Catholics in uermany than there are in Austria or in Spain. The German Center Party is purely denominational in character, and for that reason, has always been the most formidable ob stacle to democratic ideas." A Dirty Irish Fight Boston, Mass., is treated to the spectacle of a regular Kilkeny cat fight which must be interesting to the Americans of that historic city. Press Muzzle Gallivan and the Honorable (?) ex-Mayor Curley both want the same seat in congress for ir.e ensuing term. As the congres sional seat is only big enough for one of them, and as both of them are Irish ".gintlemen of the rale ould stock," it is needless to say that the fur is flying at a lively rate. Ex-Mayor Curley feels that he has a prior right to the place, as he was the misrepresentation of that district prior to his election to the mayoralty, vhen Mr. Gallivan by grace of the Irish Catholic vote became his suc cessor. Then, too, at the last mu nicipal election these "gintlemen" ran against each other for the office of mayor, which resulted in the de feat of both, to the edification and great benefit of the Bostonians. As tho ex-mayor has been cut off from tho public crib for Borne time, it is quite natural that ho desires his old place back again. As Gallivan en joys the position, especially the per quisites thereof, it is equally nat ural that he should refuse to be pried out of hia seat by any one's prior right. The fight between the "Irish Gin tlemen" is characteristic. Gallivan declares that Curley is a spy, and asserts that he split $50,000 of Von Bernstorff's slush fund with nnnttipr city official. Curley politely retorts with the charge that Gallivan is a liar, and that he is going to bring suit against THE CITY OF Case of Fred Bannon, Charged With Violating New III . M - mwm mm was uesignea to Bar iii nctuiuw uuuu the 18th day of June, it will be remembered, tho Ro manised city council of the city of Detroit, Michigan, passed an ordinance making it n misdemeanor for anyono to sell, offer for-salo or givo away on the streets of the city, or elsewhere within the city limits, any paper, pamphlet or other publication which defames any religion, creed or cult Tho Roman Catholic Truth So ciety and numerous Roman Cath olic papers in various parts of tho country were instrumental, so they claim, in securing tho passage of the ordinance, in, that they first suggested tho remedy for removing The Menace from Detroit, and afterwards wrote letters to tho va rious councilmen urging tho pas sage of the ordinance which was designed to prohibit The Menace's circulation in the city in any other manner than through the mails to subscribers m tho usual way. Tho ordinance was so silly, das tardly and un-American that no pai triotic citizen thought for a min ute that it would ever be enforced. Such a thing is not only contrary to the very principles of freedom and democracy as they appear to every intelligent citizen, but tho or dinance is contrary to tho Consti tution of the United States, and to tho 6tate of Michigan as well. Fred Bannon, a man who had sold The Menace on the 6trecU of Detroit for years, looked at the thing in tho eamo light and pro ceeded to sell the papers as of old. He was selling the issuo of July Cth, the paper giving an account of the passage of the Detroit ordi nance, when he was arrested on tho count on which he was tried on Sep tember 7th. Ho had been ar rested many times before, but noth ing could bo dono with him for the very good reason that he had vio lated no law, in consequence whereof the ordinance in question was prepared and passed for his and this paper's special benefit. The suit of tho city against Ban non was lodged in the court of Judge Charles T. Wilkins, aud the Freo Press Defenso League raised money for his defenso and em ployed Attorney Walter M. Nelson to defend tho suit and test the con stitutionality of the ordinance. The city of Detroit was represented by Assistant Corporation Counsel, James Lee. Tho prosecution had asked for and secured one continuance on the claim that the issue of TriE Men ace for July 6th was defamatory, and when the case was called on This is The Spirit September 7, 1913. Dear Friends: , The appeal for support for Tub Menace has reached me and I am sending my subscription to the record department You and your associates art no doubt having a trying time as every reformer has had in the past Do not forget the state ment in Holy Writ, "The battle is rot yours but the Lord's." It is the darkest clouds that bring the most rain. A man cannot, fight long with his back to the wall if he knows his cause is not just, but when he knows his cause is right, no power on earth can stop him. The same applies to Rome. Because her cause is wrong, her knees begin to weaken. The days of her triumph are nearly closed, and The Menace along with other organs will bring her final destruction. No victory has ever been gained without sacrifice. The wheels of The Menace press must quicken their pace after the war, and the men on tho Firing Line must increase their activities. The battle must be won. Yours sincerely, John Cowl. the aforesaid Gallivan and three pa pers of the city for libel. And the end is not yet. As both of these gentlemen are good Catholic if not good Amer icans, The Menace can have but little choice between them, and can only regard the scrap as an instance of tho pot calling the kettle black, or a case of tweedledum versus tweecyedee. As ' Congressman G. nnd ex-Mayor C. are probably equally veracious, and might accidentally tell the truth about each other, it is evident that both are booked for so long a term DETROIT VS. ine menace From The Streets of Detroit, Tried lur nayne touniy, aaiuraay, oeptemDer tho morning of September 7th the same request was made of the court by Mr. Lee. lie stated that tho paper in ques tion charged Cardinal Gibbons with being an ex-bartender ; that the prosecution had endeavored to get tho cardinal to disprove the statement but had failed to do so. but believed that it cbuld do so if given more time. On being eluded by tho League's attorney, however, Mr. Lee became somewhat angered and agreed to go to trial, Btuting that he had evidence enough to convict anyway. And the amusing feature of the case was the prose cution's evidence. Bannon made a splendid witness, lie acknowledged selling tho paper and declared that ho was proud to do so; declared his belief in the truthfulness of TnB Menace's statements; identified the passages which tho prosecutor claimed were defamatory and rapped the Roman Catholic political machine as ef fectively as the editor himself could have done had ho been in Bannon'6 shoes. The prosecution charged four counts of defamation of the Cath olic church, two on the first page and two on tho fourth. The first was cited from an article on the first page, tho title of winch was as follows: "Popery un-American and anti-American." The prosecu tor contended that the word "popery" was defamatory of the old church. Tho second count, first page, was based on a statement in an article dealing with the political situation in Alabama, and the statement al leged to be defamatory was this: "iioman Catholics do not keep faith with heretics." This count was indeed amusing in tho light of Rome's well-known attitude toward all non-Catholics, which they arc pleased to refer to in all their literature as "heretics." The writer itched to ask Mr. Lee if he thought tho Romanists kept faith with tho heretics at St Bartholo mew. The nest charge of defamation against the old church was alleged to have been in the hading of the leading article on the fourth page of tho issue in question, which head reads as follows: "A Romish Plot to Scourge Heretics Goes Over the Top in Detroit" It was charged that the word "Romish" defamed the church. You must be careful, you know, about what kind of adjectives you use when merely mentioning tho papo church in De troit. The prosecutor cited Web ster'i dictionary definition of the in purgatory that it will take all their friends can raise to pay for sufficient masses to get them out Go to it boys, and may neither of you win; for when rogues fall out, better men sometimes get their innings. Rome long ago made the discovery that taking money from Protestants or papal enterprises is a good bit like taking candy from a baby. Non-Sectarian Drive The fact that Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics are to have a united campaign to raise fund3 for the recreation and comfort of the soldiers at home and abroad will do more to knit the. American people together than anything that has happened in the last century, in the opinion of William J. Mulligan, chairman of the Knights of Colum bus committee on war activities. Evening Star, Washington, D. C, Sept. 13. Good, we are glad to learn that the Knights of Columbus and their fellow religionists aro going to quit their quarreling, and are also now willing to respect the rights of other people to hold and practice their own religious belief. If Mulligan's prediction is true, America becomes socially anotlier Eden, even if not Catholic. As it is hard to learn old dogs new tricks, we will about this later on. know more The expense accounts of many de feated primary candidates show that Rome, Rum and big business have expended more money in the effort to elect their" friends than years of service in the jobs wanted could have repaid so far as the salaries at tached to the various offices are con cerned which proves that it isn't the salary that counts, but what a man can do for somebody else by virtue of his vote in a lawmakins body. THE MAC City Ordinance Which ' word "Romish" to prove that it was a term usually used in derision and scorn. The edition of Webster's which I have before mo now, and the one I have constantly used for Cvo years in all my work, gives the fol lowing as the definition of the word "Romish:" "Belonging or relating to Rome, or to the Roman Catholic church; often disparag ing." Xo mention of defamation. The theory of tho city council of Detroit is that you should speak only in the highest terms of the old, church, or not speak at all. Tho Catholic, corral contains noth ing but sacred cows and sacred bulls and their peace must not be disturbed at least, not in Detroit The fourth and last count, on pago four, refers to Cardinal Gib bons, bettor known in worldly cir cles as "Slippery Jim." Mr. Lee leaned heavily on the halo of holi ness which he placed delicately over the head of the cardinal, and ho effected much shock and emo tion when it came time to tell the court that the filthy Menace had referred to the first primate of the church of Rome as an ex-bartender. The reason why the cardinal had not furnished the prosecution evi dence to dispute the insinuation that he is an ex-bartender did not appear at any stago of the pro cedure. Judgo Wilkins, however, being a just judge, informed the assistant corporation counsel that The Men ace could not defame the church by defaming a member of it, grant ing that the cardinal had bren de famed, and for that reason the fourth count was thrown into the ash barrel, leaving only three weak sisters on which to stand. After testimony had been heard the case was argued by both sides and Judge Wilkins took the same under advisemcut Attorney Nel; son, for the defense, injected the question of tho constitutionality of the ordinance into his exhaustive end well prepared brief, and while the judge admitted that he had not read the brief up to tho time of going to trial, he promised that he would do so before rendering his decision in the case. We were promised a decision by Monday or Tuesday following the trial of the case, but advice re ceived just before going to press with this issue informs us that tho judge has asked for further briefs bearing on the constitutionality of the ordinance, and it ia not certain just when a decision will be handed down. We await the outcome with interest VATICAN-VIENNA PEACE INTRIGUE T4TI Aviisu intrigued with tne JLTI I Ppe to start this terrible war by imposing on Serbia the infamous secret concordat 'of June 9i 1011 b., m' Austria Hungary publicly" admits that he is now intriguing with him to obtain a premature peace that will Eave the face of the autocrats. New and rather striking evidence of the collusion of the pope and tho kaisers appears in the following As sociated Press report, which was published throughout the United States September 15: "Amsterdam, Sept. 14. The Aus-tro-Hungarian government has in vited all belligerent governments to enter into non-binding discussions at some neutral meeting place with a view to bringing about peace. "THE HOLY SEE. and all neutral nations nlso will be notified. An of ficial statement from Vienna making the above announcement has been re ceived here." The scries of news messages, eight in number, from Spain which appeared in The New York Herald during the closing days of August disclosed the fact that the frequent Hun peace offensives have the sanc tion of the pope. The two hundred noman uatiionc papers in this coun try have advocated with great dili gence, since the war began, the su preme political ambition of the pope to sit in the peace conference at its close. Against this selfish nnd designing ambition of the papal autocrat, Italy, France and England are committed in a solemn treaty made when Italy entered tho war. The Roman press in this ctfuntry and abroad has in cessantly deplored this treaty and demanded it3 abrogation. But Italy knows popery by grim experience. She is deeply resolved that two kaisers and one sultan, who admit that they are belligerents, will be far too many autocrat:? for any peace conference without admitting the pope, who claims to be neutral. The premier of England was re cently quoted in the public press as saying that none but belligerent? will sit in the peace conference, and the pope will have no right there since he professes neutrality. The papal hand is too apparent in the widespread Irish treason to escape the full knowledge of the British government. France was but re cently obliged in the interest of hu manity to interfere and prevent the pope fronjl sending a German hench man an his ambassador to China. Jesuitical and scientific dishonesty, of which the papacy is past-master, will no longer deceive the great de mocracies that are fighting for the More Irish Bishops for U. S. When our great country and the other democracies are at war with Teutonic and Turkish despots, and all papal Ireland is seething with disloyalty, and the nntional president of the Roman Catholic Truth Society in this country, Jeremiah A. O'Lcary, an Irishman, is in jail undei many indictments for treason, and the Irish papists in New York and other cities have held many meetintra that the police had to disperse for disloyalty, it is interesting and significant that nearly every Roman bishop and archbishop in the United States is either Irish or German. All the cardinals and more than half of all other Roman prelates in our country are Irish, and nearly all the others are cither German or Hun garian. Why? The papal hierarchy claims about 18,000,000 membership in this country. Are they nil Irish and German? If not, why not ap point some bishops from nmong the number that are neither German nor Irish? An equally high per cent of the priests are also Irish or German. What does this mean? It means that the Roman church is an alien institution in our country and uses men of alien blood to lead its people. Apologists for Rome will explain, no doubt, that these prelates were en throned in our nation before the war and the priests were likewise or dained then. But a new batch of bishops of the same stripe are now being appointed for our cities. Here they are: M. Gallagher, Detroit; G. T. Brady, Baker City; C. Byrne, Galveston; A. Dressaerts, San An tonio; John MncNicholas, Duluth; J. Jcnnard, Lafayette. All these names aro. foreign, and all but one, the San Antonio man, are Irish. Has Rome no American priests and no Americans that Ehe could ordain to the priesthood? Why docs she tie all her people to Irish and German and Hungarian leaders? Can this gang be trusted in the present try ing times? To Michigan Patriots Fatriots and friends of the League and The Menace in the state of Michigan are bound to be interested in the movement of tho Wayne Coun ty Civic Association, of Detroit, to secure a sufficient number of signa tures to petitions to enable them to submit to the voters of the state the proposition of amending the state constitution so that the public schools of this nation will become, as they should, the melting pot of all Amer ican education and civilization. The amendment is the best thing that has yet been proposed by patriots in any state in the Union, and It deserves your whole-hearted support. Write to the Wayne County Civic Association, Broadway Market Build ing, Detroit, and get one of thase pe titions to circulate among your pa triotic friends. Do this at once and let's get things moving ia Michigan again. , . liberty of all mankind. They have seen the game played too long. They know from experience what it costs in blood and treasure. Virtually the whole world, except the Huns and Turks, hope this stupendous war will terminate forever the nightmare of papal and imperial intrigue, plunder and oppression. The kaisers may try ever so hard to seat the pope in the peace confer ence in order to escape, through his deceptive cunning, the punishment which their atrocious crimes against humanity so richly deserve; but they will try in vain. The peace and se curity of the world will require com plete and everlasting elimination of the autocrats, of Berlin, Vienna, the Vatican and Constantinople and the moral fumigation of the localities which they and their dissolute courts have so long infested and defiled. J i Phelps to France The Rev. Guy Fitch Phelps, whom Advocate readers have enjoyed read ing after and wait with intense in terest for each forthcoming install ment, is now on his way to France. He goes under the direction of the Y. M. C. A., and promises to send an occasional letter to The Advocate giving some of his experiences and observations "over there." racifio Christian Advocate. Guy Fitch Phelps, mentioned above, will bo remembered by Men ace readers as tho author of the "Bluck Prophet," "Rattle Born," and other serials published in Thb Menace. The best wishes of tne great host of Menace readers will go with Mr. rliclps to his new field of labor. 4 Hibernians Broke? A $45,000 suit has been filed against the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Ancient Order of Hibernians of America by Jerome Connor, a sculp tor. Mr. Connor states that he was commissioned to make the statue "Nuns of the Battlefield" for which the association had agreed to pay him $45,000. He declares that he spent $10,000 on the model which was accepted but the organization now refuses to proceed with its part of the contract, he says. The above item is taken from! The Pathfinder, Washington, D. C, The privilege of erecting a monu ment to nuns was granted by con gress. The Menace has always opposed it. It is a distinctly Ro man Catholic effort to immortalize nuns who worked for pay during the Civil War while tho Roman churches were closed to the govern ment for use as hospitals. We sup pose since congress has given per mission to erect the monument and Rome hates to foot the bill that Connor will have to wait for hia money until she gets up some scheme to raise tho money by a fund-raising campaign among Prot cstants. I Knights Loyal to Papa The Columliad of September, iri its account of tho 36th annual con vention of tho. Knights of Colum bus which met at New York City August 7, gives the following "IMedre of the Order" to the none! - - - i - r - "Cardinal Gasparri, II. E. Rome (Italy): "Knights ' of Columbus Supreme Council, representing United States, Canada, Newfoundland, Mexico and Cuba, extends sincerest pledge of loyalty to the Holy See and filial de votion to person of the Vicar of Christ, earnestly beseeching the AposV tolic Benediction for the members and upon the mission of recreational anci religious activities among the UnitcdA States armed forces. I "Tiira A 1?r inrttra ' Supreme Knight" In view of the fact that the oaths of the cardinals obligate to support the temporal sovereignty of tho pope by every means in their power, that this claim of temporal sovereignty or kingship is in no way limited by any declaration of tho Vatican so far made public, and the further fact that the Knighte of Columbus are absolutely under the control of the hierarchy, makes this "Pledge of tho Order" very significant . It - is needless to add that the IToly Father cabled back. "Render ing heartfelt thanks for the solemn sentiments of homage, fidelity and attachment tendered by the Su premo Council of the Knights of Columbus," and blessed with "all his heart the members of the order and all charitable persons co-operating" in their work. The Fourth Liberty Loan drive ii close at hand. Are yon ready? Twenty-three of Thb Menace's books have been placed under the ban by the Roman Catholic war gov ernment of New Zealand. Only ono of the twenty-three books deals with the war or can have any relation thereto, which shows what Catholics do when they get in places of power and dare to exercise it New Zea- land says it is going to clean hoiia.' at the earliest opportunity. Jill J I . I ll I