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This is Nunfter 337
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Sept. 28, 1918
Fall Into The Trenches Now! I
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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 .
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