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AMERICA’S MENACE 
 
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 Popery a Political System 
 
 By 
 
 C. W. BIBB 
 
 National Secretary of 
 
 The American Federation of Patriotic Societies 
 
 MINNEAPOLIS, MINN, 
 
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COPYRIGHT 1914, BY C. W. BIBB. 
 
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CHAPTER I. 
 
 DANGER SIGNALS. 
 
 “Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.” 
 
 When our sturdy forefathers purchased our heritage 
 and by the might of their courage and patriotism made 
 liberty the chief corner-stone of that immortal document 
 within whose folds is written that priceless jewel which 
 nurtured and promoted those principles going to make the 
 greatest and grandest civilization under the broad canopy 
 of heaven, they were not only building for themselves, but 
 that future generations might enjoy those privileges for 
 which they were ready to sacrifice and did offer up their 
 lives. 
 
 ^Oppression had provided them with experiences which, 
 thUtigh severe, made them master builders and enabled 
 th|sn to frame a structure purposed to serve and protect 
 th|ir progeny from those foes which follow in the wake of 
 despotism. 
 
 ’''This structure was so framed that every man, be he 
 rijfe or poor, high or low, great or small, should share 
 in^ts protection and go in and out unmolested in his pursuit 
 of ^happiness and worship his Maker after the dictates of 
 higr'own conscience. Across the broad front of this struc¬ 
 ture we call American Independence was indelibly stamped 
 (in letters crimsoned with the life blood of patriots and heroes 
 thj^words, Liberty of Thought, Free Speech and a Free 
 Press. Their parting message to us enjoined us to protect 
 Hid* cherish this heritage and preserve inviolate those prin- 
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 ciples for our children and our children’s children forever 
 and ever, so help us God. 
 
 Since that day brave sons of those patriots have counted 
 their lives of secondary consideration when they thought 
 this priceless heritage was in danger, as is attested by the 
 acres of gravestones marking their last resting-place. To¬ 
 day the very sight of the Stars and Stripes, the emblem of 
 our heritage, inspires and animates us until millions of brave 
 sons of patriots would follow it into the very jaws of death. 
 Those principles of liberty instilled in the minds of our 
 youth during schooldays continue to ripen into desire to 
 cherish and protect that which has been bequeathed unto 
 us. Oppression has long since become hateful in the sight 
 of all true Americans, millions of whom hold themselves 
 in readiness to lend a hand in setting at liberty those who 
 are oppressed and on whom the heavy hand of bondage and 
 oppression rests. 
 
 But notwithstanding all this, there are in America to¬ 
 day millions of our citizens loyal and true who do not 
 seem to realize that the security of our Stars and Stripes is 
 menaced by a subtle power of influence which is daily 
 gaining ground in our fair America and whose attacks are 
 W^ll concealed under the cloak of religion. 
 
 In this land of free speech and religious toleration only 
 comparatively few seem to be able to discern even the 
 possibility of any principality or power daring to so much 
 as contemplate the presumption that our constitution an(d 
 institutions are not impregnable and everlasting. We are 
 aware that for even suggesting an approaching danger wc 
 shall be called an alarmist, if not a much more forcefui 
 name. By not a few our warning will be branded even more 
 severely, but ignorance has ever been a poor defense behind 
 
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 which to hide in time of trouble, as is well illustrated in 
 past history. Millions have suffered because of ignorance, 
 and unless all signals fail the end is not yet. We disclaim 
 any desire to attack men in these pages. Our attention is 
 aimed at measures, or speaking even more plainly, question¬ 
 ing a system which unfortunately holds within its grip 
 multitudes of our citizens who are the victims of birth and 
 early education. 
 
 Many of these citizens have already come into posses¬ 
 sion of the true American spirit and view the System with 
 a suspicious eye. Many are becoming wise as to-the real 
 purpose of this ponderous political System and consequently 
 losing their zeal for its healing balm. 
 
 But what of the hundreds of thousands of immigrants 
 who are gathered up by the System and sent to our shores 
 each year and invested within a few months after their ar¬ 
 rival with that sacred franchise our native sons are required 
 to go into training twenty and one years to become com¬ 
 petent to exercise? 
 
 Can any sane man in this broad land fail to discern d 
 danger? Are the danger signals we are throwing out merely 
 the dream of an idealist, the outburst of a bigot, the over¬ 
 flow of an intolerant mind? “Except ye see signs and 
 ponders ye will not believe/’ hence we invite you to with- 
 told your verdict until you have heard the evidence set 
 orth in the chapters which follow. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 
 WHAT IS AMERICA’S MENACE? 
 
 Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees. Luke xii:l. 
 
 Volumes have been written by our idealists suggesting 
 remedies for the evils which have crept into our social, 
 economic, political and commercial life. Sermons have 
 been delivered pointing out cures for our lapses. Serums 
 have been sought with which to inoculate and heal about 
 every sore known to these phases of a rapidly progressing 
 civilization. 
 
 Not a few have settled the question by striking at the 
 besotted conscience of the saloon as our greatest peril. 
 Heaven knows that its pathway is strewn with the wail of 
 broken hearts and wrecked lives, dwarfed aspirations, lost 
 souls, but even these do not afford a correct answer to the 
 question, WHAT IS AMERICA’S MENACE? 
 
 Another charges Mormonism with being the chief of 
 •sinners. Well may we take cognizance that this is a Menace 
 too serious to lightly pass over, because it, too, is playing the 
 political game hiding behind the cloak of religion, but it, 
 with all its sins, is not America’s Menace. 
 
 From the pulpit comes the answer to the question by 
 branding our mad rush for riches and luxury as the one 
 great menace to America’s progress: but this merely shows 
 a superficial knowledge of the subject. ■ 
 
 What Then is America’s Menace? 1 
 
 1. It is no new thing under the sun. It is not the prod-1 
 uct of American civilization. It is not the child of our 
 
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 national constitution, though the very liberality of that 
 document may in a measure be responsible for its rapid 
 growth here in America. Since A. D. 606, when political 
 power meant as much or more than it does today, this 
 menace has inflicted itself upon governments and brought 
 them to pay tribute to its insatiable greed. Emperors and 
 kings, princes and potentates have bowed the knee and 
 kissed the toe just as they did when Caligula ruled ancient 
 Rome. Europe trembled more than once when this same 
 menace wormed itself into power over both the souls and 
 bodies of men just as it is doing in England, Canada and 
 America today. 
 
 Nay, beloved American, our country’s menace is not 
 the child of modern society—economic, political, or other¬ 
 wise. It, or its ancestors, sapped the life from Babylonia, 
 impoverished Assyria, blighted Egypt, overthrew Rome, 
 withered Spain, warped southern Europe, despoiled South 
 America, and dwarfed Mexico. 
 
 2. It is the same menace that wrecked and ruined na¬ 
 tions in the past centuries. It comes to us clothed in the 
 garb of RELIGION, but inwardly it has the parts of a 
 tyrant. It comes to us with divine unction in one hand 
 to mollify the ills of humanity, while it holds in the other 
 the chains to bind our intellects and enslave our consciences. 
 It comes to us as a direct oracle of Almighty God, while 
 under the cloak is the carcass of Beelzebub. It comes to 
 us as the vicegerent of the Son of Man, while it conceals 
 the implements of the Inquisition under the folds of its 
 religious garb. 
 
 It comes to us as the embodiment of that which uplifts 
 humanity and imbues it with those attributes which grow 
 toward a high civilization, but its withering blasts warp and 
 
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 wither those nations coming under its consuming spell. It 
 comes to us as the consummation of philanthropic zeal, but 
 the almighty dollar is its God. 
 
 It comes to us as the purifier of morals, but its teach¬ 
 ings and influence have debased and debauched the morals 
 of every country under high heaven over which it has ex¬ 
 erted an influence. It comes to us as the purveyor of salva¬ 
 tion to mankind, but it has proved beyond any shadow of 
 doubt that it is a gigantic grafting political system seeking 
 to acquire power in order to acquire wealth. 
 
 It comes to us crying peace on earth and good-will to 
 men, while it is alleged that it is now training more than 
 three hundred thousand men in this country in the use of 
 firearms in order to be ready to do its bidding. It comes 
 to us as the promoter of intellectual development we find 
 fourteen hundred years of intellectual development we find 
 its pupils groveling in abject ignorance, squalor, moral de¬ 
 gradation and superstition. It comes to us as the direct 
 successor of Peter the Apostle, but not one single one of its 
 rites and ceremonies but have been borrowed from its an¬ 
 cestors, THE PAGANS. 
 
 It comes to us wholly a religious system, but its sole 
 ambition is graft and political power. It comes to us in all 
 the humility of the Son of Man, but its arrogance and 
 intolerance have caused more bloodshed, its hands are ! 
 stained with more crime than all the wars of history. This r , \ 
 is our MENACE in this glorious twentieth century— t i 
 
 It Is the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. \ 
 
 3. It, like its ancestors, comes to us clothed in the garb 1 
 of religion, mark you, we did not say Christianity, we said j 
 religion. Under the cloak of religion not a few of the most 
 destructive parasites and damnable grafts of past ages 
 
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 have injected their virus into the corner-stones of govern¬ 
 ments and poisoned their vitals until they tottered and fell. 
 It was while hiding behind the cloak of religion that the 
 priestcraft fatally poisoned Assyria, Babylonia, Egypt, 
 Greece and Rome. 
 
 In almost every ancient nation where religion was con¬ 
 nected with the state, the priesthood veiled the former with 
 mystery and magic to better hide the system of graft 
 and devilment they early learned to practice on the super¬ 
 stitious and ignorant masses. 
 
 Bless God, Americans are taught to respect religion in 
 any and all forms. Our Constitution throws its folds of 
 gracious protection about all alike, be they true, false or 
 otherwise. While this is true, no little confusion has arisen, 
 because it makes no distinction between Christianity and 
 other forms of religion. It is hardly necessary to remind 
 you that there are multitudes of religions in the world. 
 The Aztec offering up his human sacrifice was a profoundly 
 religious being. The Cannibal of the islands was deeply 
 religious, though he gave expression to his religious senti¬ 
 ments by eating his fellow men. The people of India 
 were devoutly religious, yet some of their celebrations were 
 most revolting to modern civilization. 
 
 { This leads us to remark that a foe marching under the 
 Vloak of religion is a doubly dangerous combatant, espe¬ 
 cially in America, where we are taught to respect all and 
 Avery religion. History’s pages are red with the blood of 
 Millions who have been martyrs to the cause of religion. 
 
 I When our illustrious forefathers incorporated the clause 
 li our constitution granting to all religions liberty, little did 
 Ihey suppose they were opening up the way for the very in¬ 
 stitutions they sought to protect to be menaced by a so-called 
 
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 religio-political enemy. The framers of this wondrous 
 document evidently assumed that their progeny would keep 
 inviolate an inherited patriotism sufficient to forestall any 
 attempt to overstep the privileges granted by the incorpora¬ 
 tion of such a plank in our beloved constitution. Those of 
 us who know the true situation today also know that some 
 of us have been recreant to a sacred trust in at least one 
 respect. 
 
 4. We have already reminded you that a religious foe 
 is a formidable foe, yet after all not half so dangerous an 
 antagonist as a religio-political combatant. 
 
 To illustrate how dangerous the latter is, one has but to 
 glance back to Babylonia, Assyria, Egypt, Rome. These 
 
 empires and kingdoms fell from causes within rather than 
 from without. Under cover of spiritual consolation the 
 very vitals of the government politic were consumed. In 
 other words, the very force which was supposed to be the 
 purifying and uplifting power, bringing the secular up 
 toward the ideals of the spiritual, became the very force 
 that injected the virus which destroyed both. 
 
 As the Son of Man has said: “A man’s foes shall be 
 they of his own household.” Matt x :36. 
 
 This instrument of destruction was none other than the ' 
 priestcraft, acting under the direction of a leader whose aimj 
 ever tended toward secular power in order that a more com-/ 
 plete control and a surer mode of gaining riches and powtm 
 might result. This is the power that fastened itself at thl ( 
 very tap root of ancient nations and extracted their vital-, 
 ity. For this selfsame cause the nations of Europe were! 
 for centuries handed from one ruler to another, all the 
 while becoming weakened by the parasites gnawing at their 
 
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 vitals. This is the Menace with which our America is 
 threatened this day and hour. 
 
 Rome could have commanded the world today had not 
 her priesthood kept in ignorance and slavery the majority 
 of her subjects. The aristocracy reveled in luxury, while 
 the lower class, which constituted the majority, were too 
 ignorant to be of service when dire need came. 
 
 When Pizarro entered Peru he and his army would 
 have been annihilated in a day had not the spell of the 
 priestcraft already sapped the ambition of the people and 
 robbed them of that patriotism and manhood necessary to 
 a proper defense of their country. 
 
 Little Japan defeated greater Russia simply because the 
 patriotism of the Russian soldier, as well as his manhood, 
 
 ' had been taken from him by the priestcraft’s power over 
 both the rulers and the soldiers. 
 
 From what we have said it is plain that a grafting 
 priesthood of any nation in any age is a destructive insti¬ 
 tution. In the next chapter we will proceed to show the 
 workings of the priesthood. Thus we are led toward 
 America’s Menace, about which we shall hear more in subse¬ 
 quent chapters. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 THE PAPAL HIERARCHY. 
 
 “That man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who oppos- 
 cth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is wor¬ 
 shipped ; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing 
 himself that he is God.” II Thess. ii, 2-4. 
 
 Having now come to our subject proper, we remark 
 that America may have her ailments; there may be ruffles 
 on the otherwise still waters of our national life; social 
 and economical conditions may seem to slip out of balance 
 now and then; capital and labor may appear to have drifted 
 apart so far as to be irreconcilable; the tariff may continue 
 a political mountain too difficult of ascent for our politi¬ 
 cians easily to overcome; but all these ills combined are as 
 the prick of a pin compared to the one real menace now 
 threatening our American institutions, and which is nothing 
 more, nothing less than 
 
 The Roman Catholic Hierarchy. 
 
 This is a plain statement, but we have not made it in 
 haste, neither under the stress of any unusual emotion. 
 Calmly and unreservedly we assert that the Roman Cath¬ 
 olic hierarchy is the most dangerous menace our country 
 now faces or has ever faced and we challenge prelate, priest, 
 philosopher, preacher or politician to disprove our state¬ 
 ment. A quarter of a century’s study of the subject leads 
 us to the conclusions embodied in the above statement. All 
 we ask is the withholding of your verdict until the/testimony 
 we shall produce is fully considered. 
 
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 1—Our Public Schools. 
 
 Every Pope, Cardinal, Prelate, Priest and Jesuit is duty 
 bound by oath and otherwise to do everything within his 
 power to undermine, damage, cripple, malign, vilify, boy¬ 
 cott, betray, and belittle our public school system in fair 
 America. On every possible occasion they make it a point 
 to hurl their denunciations at them and thus far not one 
 of the cowardly newspaper editors dare call them to time 
 for their treasonable utterances such as would send them 
 into exile in Russia or China. The hierarchy had so muz¬ 
 zled and censored our metropolitan press that not a mother’s 
 son of them has the courage to peep by way of defence of 
 the bulwarks of our government. For fear of the Papal 
 Boycott these so called moulders of public opinion will be¬ 
 tray their country and become partners to the crime of 
 high treason. Awed by the blunderbuss of Papal puppets 
 they dare not open their mouths in defence of our institu¬ 
 tions. We challenge the reader to get these papers to print 
 one line of criticism of the papal system. 1 Why? 
 
 1. At the time of the organization of the American Federation 
 of Patriotic Voters in Chicago, in August, 1913, the Roman Catholic 
 Societies were holding their convention in Milwaukee. We care¬ 
 fully prepared the announcement of our organization, including its 
 (. platform, and sent it by a most reputable citizen of Chicago to both 
 the City Press Association and the Associated Press. Only one 
 
 I Chicago paper, the Tribune, gave us as much as one line of recogni- 
 ■ tion, neither did the dailies using the Associated Press news, with 
 
 very few exceptions, and they evidently let our report slip through 
 Civhile the Jesuit censor was at lunch. Notwithstanding this, all the 
 / >apers, both in Chicago and throughout the country, were filled 
 jvith the folderol of the Milwaukee Papal proceedings. Do you 
 if chink the public press is not muzzled by these Jesuits? If you 
 //think it is not, we invite you to attempt to get one line in any one of 
 
 II the metropolitan dailies of this country which would in any way 
 yeast reflection on the Roman Catholic hierarchy. 
 
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 AMERICA’S MENACE 
 
 The henchmen of the Papal hierarchy not only denounce 
 our public schools, but they have been and are today doing 
 their utmost to coerce their church members into sending 
 their children to the Roman Catholic schools under severe 
 penalty of withholding the so-called sacraments of the 
 Church , of excommunication, and of eternal damnation 
 without even granting a few days' layover in purgatory. 
 
 Just imagine, if it be possible to do so, a pompous, Irish, 
 fat-jowled priest who has sworn his first allegiance to a 
 mummified Italian, publicly denouncing the very palladium 
 of this grand and glorious government of ours. Ye gods, 
 it requires a wide stretch of the imagination to come to such 
 a state of mind. 
 
 These traitors tell their congregations that our public 
 schools turn out only thieves and murderers, that they are 
 ungodly, that they are damnable. They froth and foam, 
 prate and prance, fume and fret from day to day because 
 we Americans insist on taxing ourselves for the main¬ 
 tenance of these great safeguards of our government. Their 
 aim is to disrupt our government and step in and get the 
 balance of power. They also know that they dare not hope 
 to hold the oncoming generations of Papists with our sys¬ 
 tem of education uncovering the polluted carcass of their 
 damnable system. 
 
 These traitors have gone so far as to demand a division! 
 of our school fund to support their Papal schools, that thd 
 Romish catechism be the sum and substance of the curri-! 
 culum, as has obtained in Spain, Italy and Portugal foil 
 fourteen centuries. 2 1 
 
 2. In several states the Papal puppets have already attempte 
 to get bills passed by the state legislatures legalizing the division o 
 the school funds so that the Roman Catholic hierarchy may get it 
 
AMERICA’S MENACE 
 
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 Every American citizen knows to what extent we are 
 dependent upon the correct training of our youth in order 
 that our government may be supported and our civilization 
 progress. From Pope to priest, the Papal hierarchy knows 
 the same thing. They know more than this. They know 
 that the knowledge imparted to the youth in our public 
 schools has a tendency to cause them to think bidepend- 
 ently, to cultivate individuality, to imbibe the desire for 
 knowledge and enlightenment, and that this is the death 
 knell of the Papacy, whose chief asset is the ignorance and 
 credulity of the masses. If the reader for a moment doubts 
 this statement we need only to remind you that there is not 
 a country under the broad canopy of heaven where the 
 masses became a thinking people that popery has not gone 
 backward. This is a hard saying, but we challenge any pre¬ 
 late or priest to disprove it. One but has to glance at Italy, 
 France, Spain and Portugal for proof of our assertion. * * 3 
 
 slimy hand in our public treasury to satisfy its insatiable greed and 
 keep up its own schools to pauperize and Romanize our country, as 
 she has done in Portugal and South America, where illiteracy and 
 superstition are the chief characteristics. So bold have these Jesuits 
 
 become that they have a so-called Protestant, one traveling over the 
 country, publicly advocating this division and declaring our system 
 of education is a failure. This fellow, it is alleged, is a Jesuit in the 
 employ of this infamous system, though claiming to be a Protestant 
 that he may cover up his real designs. 
 
 3. At the Papal convention at Milwaukee, in August, 1913, an 
 appeal was made to President Woodrow Wilson and to congress to 
 use these high offices to check the so-called persecution of priests 
 and bishops by the government of Portugal. Why are the Portu¬ 
 guese hounding these Vampires “As wild animals ?” The Portu¬ 
 guese are Roman Catholics; no one can claim the interference of 
 heretics, because Portugal is, comparatively speaking, wholly Roman 
 Catholic. It therefore cannot be said to be a religious war. It is the 
 awakening of minds beginning to think. As the scales fall from 
 their eyes, they see the deviltry, deceit and debauchery of the priests 
 and bishops, and, at the risk of anathemas and damnation, they are 
 expelling these parasites from the country. God bless the plucky 
 Portuguese. 
 
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 AMERICA’S MENACE 
 
 Today four millions of Polish people in this country 
 are practically in open revolt because they have come to 
 taste the sweets of enlightenment. The threatened excom¬ 
 munication, the anathemas, the railings of priests and arch¬ 
 bishops are inadequate to coerce them into that obedient 
 subjection demanded of the Hierarchy. These people have 
 come to us in order to escape the oppression, the greed 
 and the graft of that same damnable system in the father- 
 land. They claim to have contributed two hundred mil¬ 
 lions of dollars for property in this country to which the 
 avaricious Papal hierarchy holds the title, that they con¬ 
 tribute over forty millions of dollars annually into the 
 coffers of the System to be used in supporting the Papal 
 henchmen in questionable luxury while they groan under 
 the heavy hand of Middle Ages oppression. 4 
 
 Conceive, if you can, our American school system 
 brought under the supervision of the priests of Rome. Un¬ 
 thinkable! Ye Gods! Just stop a moment and consider 
 what this would mean. Possibly you have not time, hence 
 we will illustrate what it would mean. 
 
 In the first place it would mean that from sixty to ninety 
 per cent of our youth would be classed as illiterates and 
 about the same per cent illegitimate, as has obtained in 
 every country over which popery has usurped the prerog¬ 
 ative of educating the young. Look at Italy after twelve 
 
 4. Mr. Michael Kurszka, editor of the Kuryer Polski, Mil¬ 
 waukee, Wis., the leading Polish paper of this country, has suffered 
 imprisonment, boycott, numerous lawsuits and public denunciations 
 at the hands of Papal puppets because he had the grit and grace to 
 champion the cause of four millions of his countrymen, whom he 
 is attempting to rescue from the clutches of an avaricious system. 
 This great liberator is now seeking relief in the courts and has a 
 suit against the system for $100,000 damages, and has come out of 
 the legal muddle the victor, because he had the goods and cot d 
 and wanted to deliver the same, ' ^ 
 
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 hunured years of Papal instruction. Look at Mexico, South 
 America, Cuba, and the Philippines after four hundred 
 years sitting at the feet of the Gamaliel of the Papacy. 
 Would you, fellow American, care to trust your children to 
 such a system for their education? In order to set this the 
 plainer before you, we invite you to pay careful atten¬ 
 tion to the following comparison of the results of our pub¬ 
 lic school system of education and the system of Roman 
 Catholic education. Notwithstanding Archbishop Gibbons’ 
 futile attempt in his Faith of our Fathers to deny, these stat¬ 
 istics stand out as a living condemnation of Popery’s at¬ 
 tempt to fit the youth to be full-fledged citizens, though they 
 may be first-rate Roman Catholics. 
 
 Roman Catholic Countries Illiteracy 
 
 Austria ..39 per cent 
 
 Hungary .42 
 
 Italy, Upper .53 
 
 Italy, Lower.74 
 
 Portugal . 82 
 
 Spain .63 
 
 Ireland .:.52 
 
 Average, 58%. 
 
 Now Compare Protestant countries and note the dif¬ 
 ference. 
 
 Germany .Less than 
 
 Denmark ... 
 
 Norway and Sweden. 
 
 England and Wales. 
 
 Scotland .. 
 
 United States, including In¬ 
 dians, Negroes and foreign¬ 
 ers and Papists. 13 
 
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 AMERICA’S MENACE 
 
 Illiterates per 100 Population 
 United States, including Indian, Negro, Foreign and 
 
 Papist .13 
 
 Canada, Lower Canadians are Papal.23 
 
 Venezuela, 400 years of papal schools.90 
 
 Brazil, ” ” ” ” ” 84 
 
 Chili, ” ” ” ” ” 70 
 
 Peru, ” ” ” ” ” 95 
 
 Mexico, ” ” ” ” ” 93 
 
 These figures tell volumes, and we challenge any statis¬ 
 tician to refute them. Any moderately well-informed per¬ 
 son must admit, after looking over the countries under the 
 domination of Popery, that the statistics we give are in line 
 with conditions in these countries. 
 
 If, then, such a system is unfit for your children, it is 
 no more fit for the children of Romanists, whose parents 
 are coerced by threats and otherwise to patronize these 
 schools, though the State Superintendent of the Minnesota 
 schools is quoted by a recent newspaper as saying the 
 parochial schools “are entirely satisfactory.” 
 
 A recent issue of the Baptist Advance quotes Ex-presi¬ 
 dent Elliot of Harvard as saying that there is not one “Ro¬ 
 man Catholic college in the United States that can qualify 
 a student to enter the freshman class of Harvard.” 
 
 Notwithstanding this, and as we have already said, from 
 pope to priest all are working as only Jesuits can work to 
 wreck our school system and set up that system which has 
 withered and warped Italy, Spain, France, Portugal, South 
 America, Mexico and the islands of the sea. We have set 
 forth the situation just as it is. We face it today, and in 
 it face the most deadly menace to our fair America. 
 
AMERICA’S MENACE 
 
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 Let us take the American continent and you will easily 
 get the force of our contention. Of the 122,263 illiterate 
 persons in Massachusetts, 108,365 were foreign born; ap¬ 
 proximately 20% of this foreign born element are French 
 Canadians and about 55% are Irish. Hence it appears 
 that quite three-fourths of the State’s Illiterates are Roman 
 Catholic and the product of parochial schools. 
 
 The United States government is expending millions of 
 dollars per annum to hold the Filipinos for the Papal hier¬ 
 archy to fleece them of their substance, their freedom, their 
 manhood, their intellect, their aspirations, in order to make 
 them good Papists. Is it any wonder that Cardinal Gib¬ 
 bons should object to Philippine independence? For four 
 hundred years Popery taught this unfortunate nation of 
 Filipinos, and when we found them they were practically 
 on the level with the brute and all members in first-class 
 standing in the Holy Mother Church. Seventy-five per cent 
 of the population of Spain cannot read or write. Thirty 
 thousand towns and villages have not even a pretense for 
 a school to teach the youth, and all this after fourteen cen¬ 
 turies of Roman Catholic education. 
 
 “In Ireland, where the Romish Church is dominant, 
 this same record is repeated, as in other Catholic nations. 
 In European countries where Protestantism is taught there 
 is but one out of every ten that cannot read and write, but 
 in the same countries, where Catholicism has absolute sway, 
 there is but one out of every 125 that can read and write. 
 
 “In six leading Protestant countries of Europe there 
 are 315 inhabitants to every newspaper or magazine pub¬ 
 lished, while in six Roman Catholic countries in Europe 
 there is but one newspaper to every 2,715 people. 
 
 “It is estimated that at least seven-eighths of the twenty 
 
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 AMERICA’S MENACE 
 
 million inhabitants in Spanish-America, which consists of 
 the countries of Mexico, Cuba, Central America, and the 
 north and west parts of South America, are unable to read, 
 and in Mexico alone, 90 per cent of the inhabitants can¬ 
 not read nor write, neither do they know their alphabet: 
 thus you can see what Roman Catholicism does for the coun¬ 
 tries which she controls.” 
 
 Mr. Bernard Fresenborg, who was thirty years a priest 
 of Rome, sums up the subject as follows: 5 
 
 “In Ecuador the Catholic Church has such a complete 
 hold upon the inhabitants that they will not allow Protes¬ 
 tantism taught, and the consequence of her tyranny is that 
 out of every one hundred children horn in that country, 
 seventy-five are bastards or illegitimate and have no idea 
 of their father, and the immorality of the priestcraft is so 
 vile that their actions are absolutely passed over without 
 notice, and there is scarcely a single priest to be found in 
 that country but is the father of from ten to twenty-five 
 and thirty children: but still the Roman Church continues 
 to forbid her priests to wed, when they know full well that 
 celibacy in the Catholic Church is the cause of all of this 
 degeneracy.” 
 
 This state of affairs is not confined to Ecuador alone, 
 but the same state of affairs exists throughout the length 
 and breadth of all Catholic nations which are completely 
 under the power of the Pope. 
 
 Italy for instance, which is the home of the Pope and 
 which has been the home of the Catholic Church since the 
 beginning of her abominations, is one of the most immo¬ 
 ral, illiterate and degraded countries that ever besmirched 
 the face of the earth.” 
 
 5. Thirty Years in Hell, pp. 103-6.. 
 
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 The first lesson, says Mr. Fresenborg, that a Catholic 
 child is taught is “hate,” and that lesson is directed at 
 Protestantism : therefore, is it any wonder that the educa¬ 
 tion of Catholicism only reaches out far enough to hood¬ 
 wink the student and does not elevate him or her above the 
 festering mess which surrounds it? We want to repeat the 
 statement that the Roman Catholic Church does not want 
 to educate anybody, nor will it do so, where it is not under 
 the pressure of Protestant influence. However, the Amer¬ 
 ican people demand figures and facts before they will be 
 convinced; so as further evidence of the truthfulness of 
 what we are telling you, we propose to quote from a re¬ 
 port of the minister of education in Italy, made some few 
 years ago. This report is true in every particular, and 
 bear in mind that this minister of education was a Catholic 
 himself. The report follows : 
 
 “Of every 1,000 males in the province of Lombardy 
 only 539 were able to read, and 461 did not even know 
 their letters. Of every 1,000 females'only 426 could read, 
 and 574 could not read, neither did they know their let¬ 
 ters.” 
 
 “In Naples and Sicily, out of every 1,000 males, only 
 165 were able to read and 835 could not, and out of every 
 1,000 females, only 62 could read and 938 could not read 
 and did not know their alphabet. Taking this report, you 
 will find that out of every 100, only about 10% were able 
 to read.” 
 
 In 1864, out of 21,000,000 people, only 3,500,000 could 
 read and write, and the rest did not know their alphabet, 
 and today Spain, another country which is completely 
 dominated by the power of Rome, has a population of igno¬ 
 rant dupes, as is shown by the Madrid Herald in one of its 
 
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 issues of November, 1913, and in which the editor says that 
 out of 19,000,000 population, fully twelve millions can 
 neither read nor write, and thirty thousand towns in Spain 
 have no schools for the instruction of the youth.” 
 
 Every American citizen should calmly ask himself this 
 question: Why is it the papal hierarchy is so opposed to 
 our public schoolsf If they be ungodly as they claim, then 
 why is it that in each city, town and hamlet the System is 
 so earnestly endeavoring to get Irish papists on the school 
 board? Why take the Bible out of the Schools? Why is 
 it the priests are pussy-footing about to get papists as teach¬ 
 ers of our schools? Is it because they hope to purify them? 
 Is it because they want the Romanists to have positions to 
 earn money so they can graft them? Is it because they 
 think they can head off that part of history which criticizes 
 the black deeds of the System? Is it because they think 
 there may be an occasional opportunity to inject bits of 
 the catechism? 
 
 IF IT BE NOT FOR ONE OR MORE OF THESE 
 REASONS, THEN WHAT IS THE REASON? Be the 
 reason what it may, it is high time honest loyal Americans 
 were coming alive to the situation. Think of seventy-five 
 per cent of the teachers in the public schools of Chicago 
 being Romanists. Do you for one moment suppose that 
 this is a mere “happenstance ?” Chicago is by no means sev¬ 
 enty-five per cent Roman Catholic. Not one quarter of the 
 population are papists. Why worm these females into 
 our American institutions, when we all know that in the 
 secret confessional, the Irish priests are exacting every¬ 
 thing that even savors of liberty of thought and action? 
 Brother American, we want you to answer this question. 
 
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 Is It Not Time to Think? 
 
 If you suppose we are overstating the case we invite 
 your careful consideration to what the Hierarchy and its 
 priests and editors think of our public schools. We urge 
 you to digest these divinely inspired anathemas and then 
 tell us if we are unduly exercised about the subject. Re¬ 
 member this tribe of traitors is merely voicing the infallible 
 decrees of the Vatican at Rome. We will first call your 
 attention to the Syllabus of. Pope Pius IX issued in De¬ 
 cember, 1864, and from which is taken these excerpts: 
 
 I. The state has not the right to the exclusive direc¬ 
 tion of the public schools. 
 
 II. The Catholic Church has the right to interfere in 
 the discipline of the public schools, and in the choice of the 
 teachers for those schools. 
 
 III. The Church has the right to deprive the civil au¬ 
 thority of the entire government of the public schools. 
 
 IV. That the public schools open to all children for 
 the education of the young should be under the control of 
 the Catholic Church, should not be subject to the civil pow¬ 
 ers, not made to conform to the opinion of the age. 
 
 V. Education outside the control of the Roman Cath¬ 
 olic Church is a damnable heresy.—Syllabus, 1864, Articles 
 45.46-47-48. 
 
 2— In a lecture at the Horticultural Hall, Boston, on 
 February 13, 1876, Bishop McQuade said: 
 
 “The state has no right to educate, and when the state 
 undertakes the work of education it is usurping the pow¬ 
 ers of the church.’’ 
 
 3— The Catholic World for April, 1870, and which is 
 considered one of the greatest papers of the Papacy, is 
 
 quoted as follows: 
 
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 “We do not indeed prize as highly as some of our coun¬ 
 trymen seem to do the simple ability to read, write and 
 cipher. The best ordered and administered state is that in 
 which the few are well educated and led, and the many are 
 trained to OBEDIENCE, are willing to be directed, con¬ 
 tent to follow, and do not aspire to be leaders. We believe 
 the peasantry in old Catholic countries two centuries ago 
 were better educated, although for the most part unable 
 to read and write, than are the great body of American 
 people today.” 
 
 4 — Priest Walker of New York is one of his so-called 
 sermons, said: “I would as soon administer the sacrament 
 to dogs as to Catholics (no doubt it would do the dogs quite 
 as much good) who send their children to the public 
 schools, for the public schools are the nurseries of vice, 
 and are godless schools, and they who send their children 
 to them cannot expect the mercy of God.”—Harper’s 
 Weekly, March 14, 1875. 
 
 5— “I do not consider that we are doing our duty as 
 American citizens, to ourselves, or to our children in per¬ 
 mitting such a system of public schools to exist as we have 
 today.” [Think of this fat-jowled foreign Irish Jesuit vil¬ 
 ifying our schools.]—Prof. Dunne of the Jesuit College 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 6 —Says the Freeman’s Journal of November 20, 1869: 
 “Let the public school system go to where it came from-^ 
 THE DEVIL.” 
 
 It has been suggested that if this eminent editor could 
 realize his desire and our school system land at the realm 
 of his satanic majesty, the schools would not then lack for 
 priests to teach them. 
 
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 7— Says the Chicago Catholic Tablet : “The common 
 schools of this country are sinks of moral pollution and 
 nurseries of hell.” 
 
 8— No less emphatic is the Catholic Telegraph, when it 
 says: “The American school system is a national fraud, 
 a social cancer presaging the death of national morality 
 (This eminent editor did not refer to the fact that in Roman 
 Catholic countries there are from 50 to 80 per cent of the 
 children born who are born out of wedlock—illegitimate— 
 and that in these countries the word “morality” is totally 
 unknown), and the sooner destroyed the better. It will be 
 a glorious day for the Catholics in this country when under 
 the blows of justice and morality, our schools system shall 
 be shattered to pieces.” 
 
 9— The Catholic Review gives us a broadside view of 
 the reason for papal antagonism to our school system, when 
 it savs: “We would rather our children should grow up in 
 ignorance of letters than be taught in a school that is not 
 Catholic.” 
 
 It does not require the acumen of a philosopher to dis¬ 
 cover the reason papists so dread the acquiring of knowl¬ 
 edge on the part of its puppets. Enlightenment has ever 
 been the death knell of Romanism because it uncovers the 
 deceit and sham and graft of the priestcraft. 
 
 10— At a convention held in St. Louis in October, 1873, 
 Priest Phelan is quoted as saying: “The children of the 
 public schools turn out to be horsethieves, scholastic coun¬ 
 terfeiters and well versed in schemes of deviltry. I 
 frankly confess that Catholics stand before this country 
 as the enemies of the public schools. They are afraid that 
 the child that left home in the morning would come back 
 with something in his heart as black as hell.” This old 
 
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 liquor-lined Irish priest might have added that the Roman 
 Catholic schools turn out 42 per cent of those in our peni¬ 
 tentiaries and all over the world five times their proportion 
 of paupers and criminals, 90 per cent of the saloon-keep¬ 
 ers and the large majority of the members of the Red Light 
 districts of this country. Of course Phelan is growing old, 
 and age with forty-rod booze is likely to have some effect 
 on the memory of mankind. 
 
 11— Another blatant Irish priest, one McCarthy by 
 name, in a so-called sermon delivered Dec. 23, 1887, said: 
 “The public school is a national fraud; it must cease to 
 exist, and the day will come when it will cease to exist.” 
 
 12— Said Archbishop Hughes, the priest who betrayed 
 Abraham Lincoln, when he was sent to Rome on a very im¬ 
 portant mission: “The public school system is a disgrace to 
 the civilization of the nineteenth century.” 
 
 13— That certain priest by the name of Chaucer, echoes 
 his master’s voice in these words: “The public schools have 
 produced nothing but a godless generation of thieves and 
 blackguards.” 
 
 14 —It remains for the infamous Jesuit or Paulist priest, 
 Hecker of New York, to put Rome on record in plain Eng¬ 
 lish style. This traitor is quoted by the Catholic World , 
 July, 1870, as saying: “Education must be controlled by 
 Catholic authorities, and under education the opinions of 
 the individuals and the utterances of the press are in¬ 
 cluded, and many opinions are to be forbidden by the 
 secular arm, under the authority of the Church, ei’em to 
 War and Bloodshed.” 
 
 We wonder if there is a true American citizen so stupid 
 as to think there is not a damnable and deep-seated plot 
 behind these traitorous utterances and the thousands of 
 
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 others we have not space to quote? Had Methodist or 
 Baptist ministers publicly uttered such vilifications against 
 our public schools the cowardly newspapers from the length 
 to the breadth of this land, would have devoted columns to 
 the defense of our schools. Not one of them dare call a 
 papal priest to time. 
 
 Has America a Menace? 
 
 * If the Roman Catholic system of education is so supe¬ 
 rior to the system now in use in these United States, we 
 call on Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop John Ireland to 
 tell us why in every nation on the globe where the Papal 
 system has had the education of the youth, the people are 
 degraded until the only difference between them and the 
 dumb brute is, one can talk and the other can only use 
 signs. Not once in forty years’ remembrance by the writer 
 can he recall a single reference to the intellectual and moral 
 state of Papal countries by these distinguished grandstand 
 players. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 THE PAPAL HIERARCHY A POLITICAL 
 
 MACHINE. 
 
 Upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABY¬ 
 LON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND 
 ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH/’ 
 
 We have heretofore intimated the danger of a political 
 organization operating behind the cloak of religion. The 
 charge we have made that the papal hierarchy is a political 
 machine, that its sole aim is to exercise political power in 
 order to more completely become possessed of wealth, is 
 fully borne out by the history of the past and close observa¬ 
 tion of the present. 
 
 Protestants may doubt and papists deny this statement; 
 but we unhesitatingly charge the system with being a politi¬ 
 cal machine rather than an institution maintained for the 
 purpose of saving the souls of men. This does not mean 
 that a Roman Catholic may not be a Christian, but it does 
 mean that the Papal Hierarchy is not and never has been 
 a Christian institution, and we challenge anyone to prove 
 that it is founded on the New Testament rule. 
 
 We know the Romish priests and prelates are loud in 
 their denials of being in politics, but if the system is not 
 political, pray tell us why since, before the seventh cen¬ 
 tury, Pope, Prelate and Priest have been so busily meddling 
 in affairs political and have been constantly busied with 
 political intrigues during all these centuries? No historian 
 will question our statement, for all such know that no small 
 part of past history for fourteen hundred years is made up 
 
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 of the bloody intrigues of the Papal Hierarchy. This sys¬ 
 tem has shed more human blood than all the wars of his¬ 
 tory, civil and political. Approximately seventy millions 
 of human beings have fallen because of Romanism’s greed. 
 
 You do not hear of a Baptist or a Methodist attempting 
 to dovetail his way into governments or conniving to get 
 his denomination into political power. 
 
 We challenge any one to prove that the laity of these 
 great bodies are less capable of administering the affairs of 
 government than the hordes of Irish Catholic office seekers 
 who are continuously clamoring for political recognition in 
 America. 
 
 Furthermore, why were papists so wroth because Presi¬ 
 dent Wilson left Romanists out of his cabinet? There are, 
 we believe, no Baptists appointed, and not a member of that 
 vast body has thrown a fit thus far. We have heard no 
 sound of lamentation coming from Methodists or Uni¬ 
 tarians. If the System is not a political institution why did 
 it hound the footsteps of Messrs. Roosevelt and Taft to fill 
 the offices with papists, a request each of them cheerfully 
 granted to John Ireland. No body of Presbyterians made 
 such requests. Mr. Wilson chose a remarkably high grade 
 of men as his Cabinet advisors, though we challenge the 
 patriotic sentiments of some of them, but not one word of 
 complaint has come from Protestants because he chose no 
 Lutherans or Quakers, or Baptists. Prelates, priests and 
 editors have unmercifully lambasted our President for this 
 oversight, while Protestants, whose sects are not repre¬ 
 sented in the Cabinet, bid Mr. Wilson godspeed. 
 
 Furthermore, if the hierarchy is not in politics, will • 
 some one inform us why it is that the priests of the papacy 
 are so busy about our legislative halls? Why does the 
 
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 hierarchy keep what it calls the Papal delegate at Wash¬ 
 ington? Why is there an army of Jesuits stationed at our 
 national Capitol, a regularly organized political bureau, 
 watching and lobbying all the time? Will some one tell us 
 why all these things are practiced if the hierarchy’s chief 
 aim is to deal out the saving unction of a divine Redeemer? 
 
 Let a state legislature consider a bill to open the con¬ 
 vents and houses of Good Shepherd to public inspection and 
 see how soon the entire political petticoated brigade will 
 rise up to lobby against it. 
 
 If not a political institution, why does the Pope send an 
 accredited minister to our government as do political gov¬ 
 ernments? He does not come for religious purposes, for 
 he has no church and devotes his time to political issues. 
 It is reported that the United States is the only country on 
 earth, except Belgium, that will receive the Papal delegate 
 as a minister of state. Why do we permit this foreign spy 
 and traitor to pussy-foot about our departments of state? 
 
 Let Americans Solve the Problem. 
 
 Why is it that Archbishop John Ireland, of St. Paul, Min- 
 lesota; Cardinal Gibbons and the other dignitaries, have dur¬ 
 ing the past administrations, had so constant and urgent 
 business at the White House? Congregational and Lutheran 
 ministers did not keep the path warm with their visits. 
 Why is it cardinals, bishops and priests are so exercised be¬ 
 cause President Wilson was too wise to select a Romanist 
 for his cabinet, though he has since bowed the knee to Baal 
 and kissed the toe of the Pope. Why is it that from Pope 
 to priest the Papal system is urgently recommending Papists 
 to seek public office? Why is it that the stallfed dispensers 
 of absolution are so intent on getting Papists as aldermen of 
 
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 our municipalities and members of our school boards? 
 Why is it that they have so planned as to secure the ap¬ 
 pointment of from sixty to eighty per cent of our military 
 cadets who are Papists ? Why, pray tell us^ has the army of 
 Jesuits at Washington pulled the wires in such a way as to 
 place Papists practically in complete control of our Navy. 
 
 No less significant is the why and wherefore of the Papal 
 hierarchy colonizing Papists in New York, Boston, Chicago, 
 St. Louis, San Francisco and New Orleans. Each of these 
 places is strategic in time of war and all combined practically 
 could be made, with our own navy, to operate on the plan 
 of the corking of a bottle. 
 
 Mark you, we said these cities were strategic points. Let 
 us go a step further and suppose a case, and our supposi¬ 
 tion is based upon what has happened more times than once 
 in European countries. Suppose that Pius X took a notion 
 to evacuate the Vatican and move his relics of the saints 
 and the holy water to America. Our navy is practically in 
 his hands, it being manned by men who have sworn alleg¬ 
 iance first to him; our generals in the army are largely un¬ 
 der the same obligation, the System boasts of its three hun¬ 
 dred thousand trained Knights of Columbus, besides a mul¬ 
 titude of Hibernians to support the rear. 
 
 Remember, beloved American, all these have sworn first 
 allegiance to the Pope of Rome. What might happen if the 
 holy Father said to this vast army, “go to it?” 
 
 We, practically without comment, have outlined for you 
 the situation in the foregoing series of questions. You can 
 stand face to face with them today. If you are a true 
 American you must answer them. Possibly the situation is 
 new to you. It may be you have not thought about the 
 subject heretofore, but be this as it may, if you are a 
 
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 patriotic American you will not fail to give these questions 
 full consideration. 
 
 We challenge anyone to prove that the real conditions as 
 we have set them forth do not exist today. We further 
 challenge preacher, priest or politician to disprove that there 
 is not a systematic carefully planned aim, a perfectly organ¬ 
 ized plot, a singular and particular purpose behind all this 
 papal aggression. 
 
 Is It A Political System? 
 
 Let Papists Speak on This Subject. 
 
 “Furthermore, it is generally fitting and salutory that 
 Catholics should extend their efforts beyond this restricted 
 sphere and give their attention to National politics.” Pope 
 Leo XII, Encyclical, November 1, 1895. 
 
 “Where the Church does not forbid taking part in public 
 affairs, it is fit and proper to give support to men of ac¬ 
 knowledged worth, and who pledge themselves to deserve 
 well in the Catholic Cause.” Pope Leo XIII, Encyclical, 
 January 10, 1890. 
 
 Encyclical Leo XIII, November 7, 1885. 
 
 “We exhort all Catholics to devote careful attention 
 to public matters, and take part in all municipal affairs and 
 elections, and all public services, meetings and gatherings. 
 
 “All Catholics must make themselves felt as active ele¬ 
 ments in daily political life in countries where they live. All 
 Catholics should exert their power to cause the constitutions 
 of States to be modeled on the principles of the true Church. 
 
 “If the Catholics are idle, the reins of power will easily 
 be gained by persons whose opinions can surely afford 
 little prosepect of welfare. Hence Catholics have just 
 reason to enter in to the political life; having in mind the 
 
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 purpose of introducing the wholesome life-blood of Cath¬ 
 olic wisdom and virtue into the whole system of the State. 
 
 “All Catholics who are worthy of the name must work 
 to the end that every State be made conformable to the 
 Christian model we have described.” Muller in Roman 
 Catholic Catechism. No. IV, pp. 250-52. 
 
 “The Roman Catholic is to wield his vote for the purpose 
 of securing Catholic ascendency in this country.” Priest 
 Hecker in the Catholic World, July, 1870. 
 
 The Catholic Review, July, 1894, says: “When a Cath¬ 
 olic candidate is on the ticket and his opponent is a non- 
 Catholic, let the Catholic candidate have the vote— no mat¬ 
 ter what he represents .” He may be a libertine, or a saloon¬ 
 keeper, but if he is a papist he passes at par, no matter what 
 he advocates. 
 
 The Catholic World says: “We hold that if the govern¬ 
 ment is sustained it must reject the principles of the Re¬ 
 formation, and accept the Catholic principle, which is the 
 government from the pope; that the pope issues the orders 
 to which every Catholic must yield obedience.” 
 
 “The Church never can come into its own, until there are 
 more Catholics in Congress. The Church never will wield 
 the influence for good which it should possess until this 
 comes to pass. Do not fear that there is any prejudice 
 against Catholics in high places. There is none. You are 
 not kept back, you are keeping yourselves back.”—Arch¬ 
 bishop Ireland at Detroit, Mich., in the New York Tribune, 
 January 28, 1911. 
 
 “It is often asked: What has the federation accom¬ 
 plished during the seven years of its existenece?” Among 
 many other practical results may be mentioned the follow¬ 
 ing: The creation of Catholic public opinion in the United 
 
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 States; the repeal of the obnoxious marriage law in Cuba; 
 the appointment of Catholic army chaplains; the introduc¬ 
 tion of Catholic books into the public libraries; the defeat of 
 the Bard amendment, affecting the rights of Catholic In¬ 
 dians ; the acceptance of the Father Marquette statue by our 
 government. 
 
 “In Ohio, New Jersey, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisi¬ 
 ana, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky the federation succeeded 
 in defeating legislation injurious to Catholic interests. 
 
 “Among the works in which the Federation is engaged 
 and which it expects to prosecute with renewed vigor, after 
 this national convention, let me select these two: The uni¬ 
 fication of the Catholic nationalities of the United States 
 and the solution of the school question.”—Bishop McFaul, 
 Trenton, N. J. In address before the Catholic Federation. 
 
 Be assured it is not a mere circumstance based on desire 
 to deal out salvation for the benefit of the souls of the 
 children of men; is it not the natural trend growing out of a 
 concentrated effort for the moral uplift of humankind, for 
 such do not come through armies and navies and secretly 
 trained privates. What does it mean f 
 
 In leading the reader to seek out his own answer to the 
 questions, we will leave the subject with this injunction: It 
 is the duty of every American to penetrate the muck and 
 mire of real Jesuitism and uncover to his own satisfaction 
 just what all this means. We are persuaded you will find 
 what millions of Americans are finding, that the secret in¬ 
 trigue and treason of the pope’s Jesuits in America are but 
 the outcropping of the aim of the System whose highest 
 ambition is to dethrone liberty and warp free thought and 
 speech and bring the souls and bodies of men into abject 
 
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 subservience such as heretofore obtained in European 
 countries and now obtains in South America. 
 
 “He hath ears let him hear.” 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 
 PAPAL PHILANTHROPY. 
 
 “By their fruits ye shall know them” 
 
 Whatever be our private opinion concerning the Papal 
 Hierarchy, our desire is that no influence of our own be 
 permitted to overshadow full recognition of any possible 
 good there might be in the system of Popery. In other 
 words, we are not here expressing our opinions, but rather 
 suggesting the evidence in support of the charges made 
 at the head of the different divisions of our subject and 
 our desire is to give the accused the benefit of any and all 
 doubt. On the other hand, whatever we may say could not 
 for a moment measure up with the results of centuries of 
 activities on the part of the defendant. 
 
 “By their fruits ye shall know them!’ 
 
 This brings us directly to a view of the papacy from the 
 present time back through the centuries. 
 
 1. As a philanthropic Institution. 
 
 Times almost without number we have heard it innocently 
 but ignorantly said that the Papal Hierarchy was such a 
 wonderfully philanthropic institution, with open arms reach¬ 
 ing out in every direction indicative of loving sympathy for 
 the unfortunate and the distressed—which may be true, 
 but like the wolf loves the lamb. The idea seems to have 
 become quite prevalent that the multitudinous and pretenti¬ 
 ous piles of brick, stone and mortar called asylums, hos¬ 
 pitals, and houses of the Good Shepherd are lasting monu¬ 
 ments to the spirit of true altruism which pervades the Sys- 
 
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 tem. Not a few who are accustomed to see the pale-faced, 
 scantily fed nuns begging on the streets can easily sur¬ 
 mise that they are bearing their burdens solely under the 
 inspiration of a desire to assist unfortunate humanity 
 as uppermost in their souls. 
 
 Our charge is that the sun does not shine on a mor€ 
 colossal fallacy. If you will take the pains to reduce the 
 charge to its final analysis, you will find that for every 
 human pain allayed, the Almighty dollar jingles at some 
 point as it comes in contact with the Papal strongbox. 
 
 Mark you well our charge. We unhesitatingly assert that 
 every move made by the philanthropic arm of the papal 
 hierarchy drops the coveted ducats into the treasury. The 
 question may arise: Does not the System maintain many 
 and mighty institutions? We frankly admit it does but as a 
 rule they are built with Protestant money and maintained 
 as a blind for begging nuns to touch up the heretics. Thous¬ 
 ands of poor deluded womankind blindly delve and drudge, 
 poorly clad, scantily fed, without receiving one farthing for 
 their service, all for the glory of God(?) 6 and the enrich¬ 
 ment of the hierarchy. 
 
 Do you imagine the hospital service is free to the sick, 
 the halt, the lame and the blind? Other sects and cor¬ 
 porations maintain institutions for revenue and do not 
 pose as philanthropists. But what better purpose do these 
 institutions serve than is served by our state and municipal 
 institutions? Really what is the need for them? 
 
 The houses of the Good Shepherd attached to most of our 
 great cities having for their alleged purposes the reforma¬ 
 tion of girls who in an unguarded moment may have pur- 
 
 6. The pope and priest is God to the papist and exercises all 
 those divine prerogatives we ascribe to the Supreme Being. 
 
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 loined a forty-cent box of candy, a can of face powder, or 
 a tuck comb, have been found to emit an atmosphere not 
 in keeping with their name. No doubt the reader has 
 supposed that these unfortunate girls are sent to the house 
 of the Good Shepherd because the holy influences of the nuns 
 would overcome their evil proclivities and imbue them with 
 those high and holy desires which make for a complete 
 reformation. This is and has been the prevailing opinion 
 of these holy retreats at which the sacred nuns keep faith¬ 
 ful vigil. Great guns, how grossly you have been deceived! 
 These houses of the Good Shepherd are nothing more than 
 vast laundries where frail girls are compelled to bend their 
 backs over the zvashtub from early morn till late at night; 
 where the linen of great hotels and vast railroad systems 
 is laundried for gain to enrich the Papal Hierarchy. The 
 various cities are paying the board of these girls at the rate 
 of from $3.00 to $5.00 per week and they are, contrary to 
 law and human kindness, placed in abject slavery and fed 
 on the refuse gathered from various sources and the profit 
 on their labor goes into the treasury of the Papal Hier¬ 
 archy. This, beloved, is a fair sample of Roman Catholic 
 philanthropy. These houses of the Good Shepherd re¬ 
 ceive pay for these girls from the municipalities and at the 
 same time get the profit of from ten to eighteen hours a 
 day for their labor. All this is in America, in this glorious 
 twentieth century. 
 
 These are the mints of the Papal Hierarchy illegally 
 turning the labor of frail girls into the coin of the realm 
 which drops, drops, drops, into the System’s treasury, at 
 the rate of millions of dollars annually. These girls, whose 
 keep is paid by the municipalities, are worked inhumanly 
 by the heavenly nuns over laundry tub, mangle or sewing 
 
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 table for not only months but years without decent clothes, 
 adequate food, and humane treatment. 7 
 
 In Ireland today the Hierarchy not only is deriving profit 
 from the schools, the convents and houses of Good Shep¬ 
 herd, but from the insane asylums as well. 
 
 Mr. Michael J. F. McCarthy shows that the Papal para¬ 
 sites are drawing public funds from every conceivable 
 source and piling up immense wealth while the poor de¬ 
 luded people are sinking deeper and deeper in misery, 
 squalor and ignorance. 
 
 If you need further convincing make an investigation in 
 your own city. Take the house of Good Shepherd of Cin¬ 
 cinnati or Pittsburgh. Just at this time the latter institu¬ 
 tion is undergoing investigation, with results such as we 
 have already described, only infinitely worse. Philanthropy? 
 Ye Gods! Uplifting influences? The saints save us! .Re- 
 fining and Reformatory? If the almighty dollar refines and 
 reforms. Yes. Mark our charge , every time the crank of 
 the great philanthropic machine of the Papal Hierarchy 
 turns the mechanism is so constructed that the dollar drops 
 out. 8 
 
 7. A prominent business man of St. Paul, Minn., told the 
 writer only a few months ago how he and some friends waged war 
 
 for some years on Archbishop John Ireland’s House of Good Shep¬ 
 herd, and how he had found girls had been detained for years, 
 against their will, after their sentence had expired. The same gen¬ 
 tleman referred to one girl who had been held in slavery in the 
 laundry of this institution for about twenty-one years without 
 a penny of remuneration. Possibly Archbishop Ireland needs the 
 money for a dome to the new cathedral. Miss Frances Lloyd, one 
 of the public school teachers of Chicago, declares she labored in 
 one of the hierarchy’s heavenly retreats for twenty-three years 
 without one farthing in the way of remuneration. This frail young 
 lady, at fair wages, has contributed about $25,000 in service to 
 the hierarchy and she is but one of seventy thousand similar cases 
 in America. 
 
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 Mothers of America, will you continue to pray and plan 
 to relieve your sisters in India while a state infinitely worse 
 is the lot of your own sisters, probably within the city in 
 which you live? Unfortunate girls are being sent con¬ 
 trary to law, contrary to human decency, contrary to the 
 American spirit, contrary to justice, to these places that 
 the Papal system may grind from them the almighty dollar 
 for the use of the lecherous priests, while we sing, ‘‘Rescue 
 the Perishing.” These girls are imprisoned for years and 
 when released are turned out without adequate clothing to 
 cover their nakedness and are fully equipped for the red- 
 ight district. Ambition gone, womanhood stifled, aspirations 
 deadened, spirit broken, they are turned out on the world 
 penniless. 
 
 Women of our churches, have you a duty? Are you ful¬ 
 filling your mission in life as the guardian angels of a 
 glorious sisterhood, if you do not raise the cry to open up 
 these worse than prison houses of Good Shepherd and 
 nuneries and bring them under the most rigid inspectiont 
 The voice of Rachael weeping for her children is but a 
 nursery lullaby compared with the wail of thousands of 
 
 8. What of the scores of convents? The most inhuman of 
 all slavery, drudgery, degradation and debauchery that has ever 
 existed since the foundation of the world. The suffering inside 
 many of those convent walls is attested to by hundreds of escaped 
 nuns. No artist’s brush can ever picture—no human mind ap¬ 
 preciate. You who enjoy the freedom of this gracious twentieth 
 century atmosphere imagine a system imprisoning deluded women* 
 kind all their natural lives in these convent prisons and reaping 
 filthy gain at the expense of their womanhood, their pleasure, their 
 usefulness to the world, their place in society and that jewel which 
 is above all price. If you doubt our charge, we refer you to the 
 large number of women who have thrown off the fetters of these in¬ 
 stitutions and tell their own story. So far as we know history, not 
 one inmate of these places has escaped that did not bear the same 
 testimony concerning them. 
 
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 girls with immortal souls incarcerated in these dens behind 
 prison bars, all the while posing under the cloak of philan¬ 
 thropic institutions, but whose aim is to grind filthy lucre 
 for the Papal Hierarchy at the cost of thousands of the 
 lives of daughters of your sisters in the flesh. Can you 
 pray again, “Thy Kingdom Come,” and hold your peace 
 when you know all this is taking place right before your 
 eyes ? May the Great God touch your lips and hearts with 
 a coal from off the altar and send you forth as ministering 
 angels to rid our land of this awful crime against decency, 
 humanity, womanhood, God, home and country. 
 
 We challenge you to prove we have overtinted the pic¬ 
 ture. We challenge priest or prelate, monk or monkey, to 
 disprove one statement we have made. We charge that these 
 Convents and Houses of Good Shepherd are the vilest of 
 vile prisons where inhuman treatment is inflicted on frail 
 girls, where the food is vile and in many instances filthy 
 and all for the glory of “Lord God the Pope’s” treasury 
 box. 
 
 Who dare disprove it? Christian women! in the name of 
 decency and patriotism, of womanhood and motherhood, 
 rise up and acquaint yourself with what is transpiring 
 about you. 
 
 2—ORPHAN ASYLUMS. 
 
 Your attention has more than a few times been called 
 to the numerous orphan asylums maintained by the benevo¬ 
 lent arm of the Papacy. Time and again you have heard 
 how charitable Romanists are, how very solicitous of the 
 welfare of helpless children. You have indeed heard this 
 so often that you have been duped into believing that the 
 Papal System really does outdo others along the line of 
 
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 philanthropy. Did it ever occur to you that no institution 
 or organization under heaven stands in greater need of 
 shelter for foundlings? 9 We are putting the question 
 squarely up to you and leaving you to make your own solu¬ 
 tion. With seventeen thousand bachelor priests and seventy 
 thousand unmarried maidens, is it any more than playing 
 the human act to make provision for foundlings? 
 
 After consideration of the three following charges it 
 will be seen that the Papal orphanage is not altogether a 
 philanthropic institution. 
 
 1— It is a trap to catch Protestant simpleton’s contribu¬ 
 tions. 
 
 2— It is maintained to feed the Papal Church. 
 
 3— It profits by the free services of the youth. 
 
 1. There is nothing the Papacy dotes more on than 
 show. One of its strong points is bluster and noise in 
 order to attract attention. Pompous processions, blazing 
 bazaars, illegal lotteries, gambling devices and newspaper 
 
 9. We defy any living person to prove that the rate of illegiti¬ 
 mate births is so great in any country under heaven as in Roman 
 Catholic countries. 
 
 Hear a spasm of honest confession from the Westminster 
 Gazette, a well known papal publication. “The neglected children 
 of London are chiefly our children, and the lowest of every class, 
 whether thieves or drunkards, are Catholics.” 
 
 Statistics gathered from the several public documents show that 
 the illegitimate birth rate in Brussels was 35 to the 100 births, in 
 Paris 33, in Vienna 55, in Brazil 84, in Argentina 50, in England 5. 
 Bishop Thomas B. Neeley, in his South America , says: “Illegitimacy 
 of birth, which is so common, further reveals the widespread im¬ 
 morality of South American countries. The percentage of illegiti¬ 
 mate births is exceedingly high, sometimes thirty or fifty or a 
 greater per cent. In Eucador it is seventy-five per cent. In Vene¬ 
 zuela more than one-half the children are illegitimate.” 
 
 The Rev. H. C. Tueller of Rio de Janeiro, writing in 1890, says 
 of Brazil: “The official statistics show that in the year 1890 there 
 were living 2,603,489 persons, or more than one-sixth of the entire 
 population of the country, who were born out of wedlock.” 
 
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 notices are part of the game to keep everlastingly in the 
 limelight, while the real work of the System is done under 
 cover. The pale-faced, ill-fed nuns going from merchant to 
 merchant begging Protestants to support Papal institutions 
 are at the same time advertising their philanthropic side 
 show. Vast revenues are thus gathered to boost the char¬ 
 ity side of popery and. cover up its political aggression. In 
 certain states, through the election of Papists to the legisla¬ 
 tures, large sums are cropped out of the public treasury to 
 support various Papal institutions under the guise of pub¬ 
 lic charity. This graft has become very general and 
 promises to grow quite popular unless checked by true 
 Americans. 
 
 2. It can be fully depended on that the orphans in 
 these institutions are fed morning, noon and night on the 
 Papal catechism. The rudiments of popery are instilled in 
 these youthful minds and their names placed on the records 
 of members in good standing. This is a reason why Papists 
 say, give them the child until ten years of age and Pro¬ 
 testants may have them ever after. 
 
 Thus the orphanages become feeders to the Church and 
 help along the boost of the Papacy in such vast numbers 
 belonging to that system. 
 
 3. The vast numbers of waifs picked up by Papists 
 are taught to produce something as they grow physically 
 competent. Be this much or little, it goes to swell the pro¬ 
 fits these institutions produce for the overworked Holy 
 Father . 
 
 Now, before you doubt the charges we have brought 
 against the philanthropic arm of the Papacy, let us ask you 
 just one simple question. Did you ever, during all the days 
 of your life, know or hear of the Papal System, or even 
 
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 local Romish priests, leading in raising funds for the relief 
 of a city, community or nation when sudden disaster, fa¬ 
 mine or scourge overtook them, or contributing to any 
 Protestant Church or charity affair? Just think it over and 
 answer the question honestly in your own mind. 
 
 Let us make it a bit plainer. We recently saw the state¬ 
 ment of the funds the Christian Herald of New York had 
 gathered during the past few years to relieve distressed 
 humanity at home and abroad. The amount aggregated 
 several millions of dollars. Now, honor bright, did you 
 ever hear of the Papal Hierarchy voluntarily letting loose 
 of one dollar when the call of distress came? 10 
 
 It is reported the Knights of Columbus had a few 
 months ago devoted the sum of ten thousand dollars for the 
 flood sufferers in Ohio, but Mr. Priest insisted it be used 
 for Papists only. This, you will find at times is done, but 
 we ask you again, did you ever hear of the Papacy donating 
 one dollar directly and voluntarily for the general relief of 
 humanity? Roman Catholic citizens may have done so, 
 but the priests of the Hierarchy, never. 
 
 Take your time to recall instances where you know our 
 charge will not hold good. But as it is, the burden of proof 
 to the contrary rests with you. The statement recently ap¬ 
 peared in the public press that contributions to the Papal 
 hierarchy for the last year reached the fabulous sum of 
 five hundred millions of dollars. We challenge you to fur- 
 
 10. It is said the home office of one branch of the Convent 
 System of the Papacy, which is located in France, some time ago 
 had thirty millions of dollars on deposit in one bank and sixteen 
 millions in another, while the real estate holdings, which escape 
 taxation, are almost beyond computation. All this is gathered from 
 the labor of young women in the convents and Houses of Good 
 Shepherd, as well as from orphans and from the begging nuns. 
 
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 nish us with proof that any considerable part of this vast 
 sum has been devoted to philanthropic purposes. 
 
 Misery indescribable exists in every Papal country on 
 earth today. Millions of Roman Catholics are living al¬ 
 most on the level with the brute, unthinkable squalor exists 
 in tens of thousands of places notwithstanding millions of 
 dollars annually are grafted under the pretext of saving im¬ 
 mortal souls. 
 
 How under heaven can a sane mind reconcile philan¬ 
 thropy with what actually exists today in Papal circles? 
 It is unthinkable. But this is not all. Protestantism is 
 spending millions of dollars for the uplift of men who for 
 divers reasons are homeless and Godless in our great cities. 
 Hundreds of life-saving stations are planted in the slum 
 districts and maintained by our business men. Did you 
 ever know of a Papal Cardinal, Archbishop, Bishop or 
 Priest expending his energies and revenues on this sort of 
 work? You never did, and you never will. While the 
 class we referred to are largely Papist, they are of little 
 consequence to the Plierarchy because they cannot fill the 
 maw of a conscienceless greed and help to make up the 
 needed half billion annual collection. In other words, the 
 System is willing that Protestants should support Papists 
 as long as they are down and out and have no money to 
 drop in the strong box. The class of dependents on our 
 charity rolls in America is largely Roman Catholic. If 
 any doubt the statement, just refer to Chicago, Boston or 
 New York. 
 
 When seven and one-half millions of dollars were paid 
 to the Hierarchy for friar lands in the Philippines, did that 
 great philanthropic institution pass it along as an endowment 
 fund for the education and uplift of the Philippines? Not 
 
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 in a thousand years. It dropped the gold into its strong box 
 and, through certain political candidates, secured our public 
 funds with which to cram the Filipino with the Romish 
 Catechism. This is precisely what the Hierarchy is doing 
 today to our island wards. Do you wonder that Cardinal 
 Gibbons should strenuously object to giving the Filipinos 
 self-government? Their liberty means taking the hand of 
 the Hierarchy out of our public treasury. Its insatiable 
 greed was not satisfied with the nine and one-half millions 
 of dollars which rightfully belonged to the Filipinos, if it 
 really belonged to any one, but it seeks to graft our public 
 funds with which to further wither and warp this unfortu¬ 
 nate people. 
 
 Philanthropic? “By their fruits ye shall know them.” 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 
 THE INFLUENCE OF POPERY. 
 
 “A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt 
 tree bring forth good fruit, for the tree is known by its fruit.”— 
 Matt, vii, 18 and xii, 33. 
 
 In this chapter it shall be our aim to review the system 
 of Popery, showing the reader its effect on those nations 
 which it has dominated for centuries. At the outset let us 
 again remind you that we shall content ourselves with re¬ 
 viewing facts, leaving you to draw your own conclusions. 
 
 In this review we again disclaim all desire to give promi¬ 
 nence to our opinions, preferring to let history bear testi¬ 
 mony as it may. 
 
 “The tree is known by its fruit.” 
 
 Since A. D. 606, Popery has assumed a two-fold prerog¬ 
 ative. It has not only claimed to open up the sole avenue 
 of salvation for the souls of men, and to guard that avenue, 
 permitting to pass whom it will, but it has assumed a so- 
 called divine political right to make laws governing the 
 politics and economic problems of mankind. Born of an 
 ancestry presuming to possess these functions because of 
 direct succession to the gods, it is not at all unnatural that 
 
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 such presumptuous prerogatives should pass from parent 
 to child. 
 
 Taking unto itself these claims, whitewashed with a dis¬ 
 torted interpretation of Scripture largely impregnated with 
 tradition, Popery came to assume not only divine power, 
 but equality with Divinity itself. It heralded abroad the 
 claim of sole interpreter of the will of Almighty God, pre- 
 
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 cisely as its Pagan ancestry interpreted the will of the gods 
 centuries before its birth. He who presumed to exercise the 
 right to worship his Maker according to the dictates of his 
 own conscience at once became a heretic and the subject of 
 curses, anathemas, persecution and death. It is estimated 
 that this assumed divine prerogative of the Papacy has been 
 built up and maintained at the cost of from fifty to seventy 
 millions of innocent human lives. 
 
 Now let us see what effect this divine panacea has had 
 on the nations whose ills it has treated. We have a perfect 
 right to suppose divinity would leave its stamp upon its sub¬ 
 jects in like manner as the parent imparts some characteristic 
 to the child. If the Pope and Priest be the direct representa¬ 
 tives of God Almighty on earth and transmit His image to the 
 hearts and lives of men, if they possess the purpose and 
 power as direct successors of our adorable Lord Jesus Christ, 
 then who can criticise us for supposing we have a right to 
 expect the subjects of this vast System to be the most en¬ 
 lightened, most godly, most advanced, most civilized, most 
 honored, most righteous of any people upon earth today? 
 According to the System, these people have listened for cen¬ 
 turies to the voice of our blessed God; indeed the voice of 
 those possessed of powers greater than those of Almighty 
 God himself . 11 They have all the days of their lives seen 
 
 11. PRIESTLY PRESUMPTION. 
 
 The following is part of a sermon preached by Priest Martin 
 M. Gregory, a Roman Catholic, in one of the Catholic churches of 
 Chicago recently, and reported in the Chicago Inter-Ocean. The 
 subject of the sermon was “The Priesthood of Christ.” 
 
 “The priest of today, rightly ordained in the church, is as truly 
 a priest as were the apostles or even Christ himself. In. his eleva¬ 
 tion to the sacerdotal order the priest received a spiritual character 
 and he participates in the divine power of our Savior. [Priest 
 Hans Schmidt is an example.] He is not merely like Aaron and 
 Melchizedek; he is like Christ himself. He is another Christ. He 
 
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 Almighty God (heaven forgive the blasphemy) go in and 
 out before them. They have touched the hem of His gar¬ 
 ments and kissed his holy toes from childhood to the grave. 
 Tell us then if we are committing any breach if we presume 
 to expect the fruits of the System to be anything but the 
 very highest and holiest since the foundation of the world? 
 
 Judge for Yourself. 
 
 We incorporate the following review of those countries 
 over which the Papal System has held sway for from four 
 to fourteen centuries and leave you to be the judge. We, 
 
 not merely represents Christ; he is one with Him. Christ is in him 
 by the divine power he has received in ordination and through the 
 mystic words of consecration he really and truly offers up to God 
 his own Divine Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. 
 
 I cannot exaggerate the power and dignity of the priest of God. 
 His power is greater than that of an angel. His dignity is greater 
 than that of Mary, the queen of Angels. At the altar his power is 
 not inferior to that of God himself. In the most adorable sacrifice 
 of the Mass the priest, in taking bread and wine and pronouncing 
 the several words of consecration, draws aside the veil of heaven 
 and calls Christ down upon our altar. At the voice of the priest 
 the substances of bread and wine are immediately changed into the 
 body and blood of Christ. No power of man is equal to this sub¬ 
 lime action. It must be the power of God. 
 
 “Besides the sacrificial power which the priest received, there is 
 also given him, in his ordination, the power to forgive sins. These 
 are the words of Christ: 
 
 “ ‘Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whose sins you shall forgive shall 
 be forgiven them.’ 
 
 “This power of forgiving sins he shares with Christ himself, 
 so that if Christ were to descend upon each and hear confessions in 
 one confessional, while the priest would in another, the penitents 
 in both cases would be forgiven in the same degree.^ 
 
 “Behold, then, the power and dignity of the priest! What can 
 we find in this world comparable to it? St. Ignatius calls it ‘the 
 apex of dignities?’ The sacerdotal dignity surpasses all under¬ 
 standing. The dignity of the priesthood is a mystery that we can¬ 
 not form a just conception of. It suffices that we attend to the 
 words of Christ when he says: ‘He that heareth you heareth Me, 
 and he that despiseth you, despiseth Me.’ ”—Published by the Patriot; 
 taken from the Indo-American Magazine. 
 
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 mark you, refrain from expressing our personal opinion, 
 because we want to be fair on the one hand, and assume that 
 the intelligence of the reader needs no assistance on the 
 other. 
 
 The reader is cited to these Papal countries in order to 
 judge for himself if or not the danger signals now being 
 erected throughout America are superfluous or timely, 
 
 whether they be warranted or merely the outcroppings 
 of the fancy of alarmists. You must be the judge. Our 
 
 province is to state the facts. For twelve hundred years the 
 Papal Hierarchy has held undisputed power over Italy, 
 Portugal, France and Spain; that is, the Hierarchy’s rule 
 began about twelve centuries ago. 
 
 Now, mark you, the Hierarchy teaches that it, and it 
 alone, possesses to the absolute exclusion of all other sys¬ 
 tems, the principle of spiritual, moral and commercial up¬ 
 lift and those elements which go to make up the highest and 
 most finished civilization. It teaches that the Pope, the sole 
 head of the System, is even greater than Almighty God 12 and 
 has the right to dictate the things which make man all that 
 his Creator wants him to be. It further teaches that the 
 Church, of which the Pope is the head, is the one efficient 
 panacea for all the ills human nature is heir to; that once 
 man swears obedience to the Church, he is a man from the 
 crown of his head to the sole of his shoe. Now then, take 
 a glance at the nations which have been ruled by the System 
 
 12. Pope Pius X, when Archbishop of Venice, set forth the 
 Pope in these words: “The Pope is not only the representa¬ 
 tive of Jesus Christ, but he is Jesus Christ himself, hidden un¬ 
 der the veil of flesh. Does the Pope speak? It is Jesus Christ 
 who speaks. Does the Pope accord a favor or pronounce an ana¬ 
 thema? It is Jesus Christ who pronounces the anathema or ac¬ 
 cords the favor. So that when the Pope speaks, we have no busb 
 ness to examine. We have only to obey.” 
 
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 53 
 
 of the Papacy and decide for yourself what has been its in¬ 
 fluence on those Nations. Glance at Italy, France, Spain, 
 Portugal, all nations which have had a tenfold opportunity 
 to become and to continue the mistresses of the entire world. 
 Review the struggles through which they have passed down 
 through the centuries. Observe the want, the squalor, the 
 degradation, the misery, the illiteracy, the illegitimacy, the 
 crime, the immorality, not only now, but during the past 
 centuries. Trace the bloody tracks of the System down 
 through the centuries and then tell us if we are severe in 
 handling the case. Education until recent times has been 
 solely in the hands of the papal church. No one even dared 
 to step outside the church curriculum under penalty of 
 eternal damnation. 
 
 Here they are. Take a long look at them. England and 
 North Europe had free education. Men could think, and 
 thinking expands the desire to know more. One shows 
 an illiteracy of from less than 1% to 9%, the Papal coun¬ 
 tries from 60% to 95%. Protestant countries are young, 
 compared to the Papal countries. Observe the difference 
 and draw your own conclusions. As you ponder these things 
 in your mind just ask yourself this simple question: Do 
 you want the Roman Catholic Hierarchy to get a footing 
 in our own America? 
 
 It does not matter if you are a Roman Catholic or a 
 Protestant. You may be the parent of children and have an 
 ambition to see your children the equal of any. Can you 
 afford then to risk the training of your child to a system 
 whose influence has the effect which, authentic history and 
 personal observation show you, obtain in the countries men¬ 
 tioned? Just take one glance at South America today. It 
 is a country teeming with natural resources to astonish the 
 
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 world. Natural transportation has always equaled our 
 country. Soil, climate, forest, minerals continue to await 
 development, though it has had the Papal System almost 
 two centuries longer than Protestant America has been set¬ 
 tled. The catechism has had undisputed sway for four 
 hundred years and the parochial school equally as long. 13 
 Just look for yourself, then glance at the Philippines now 
 being fleeced by popery under the protection of the Stars 
 and Stripes. It is costing us millions of dollars per year to 
 hold the Filipinos while the Papacy shears the lambs. 
 
 Do you want such a simoom to strike our fair America? 
 Do you want it even to get any footing with your people? 
 Are you so selfish that it makes no difference to you just 
 so you are not disturbed ? Is your patriotism so thin-skinned 
 that you recognize no obligation to the million and more of 
 immigrants coming to our shores to become American citi¬ 
 zens? Have you no debt to discharge for the benefit of 
 
 13. Says Bishop Thos. B. Neely, in his South America: “The 
 Roman Catholic Church in South America has been a sad failure. 
 It had before it a great opportunity. For centuries it had the entire 
 field, without a competitor. It has failed to develop a spiritual 
 Christianity to give the people freedom, either political or religious, 
 to enlighten and make the people intelligent or greatly to better their 
 social condition.” 
 
 Says the Brazilian Journal: “The heritage which Spain and 
 Portugal left their South American colonies under papal rule was 
 priestly tyranny and corruption, ignorance of the masses and illegiti¬ 
 macy; defective morality, superstition, bigotry or open unbelief; 
 external forms of religion degenerated into downright idolatry, 
 chronic revolutions and bankruptcy.” 
 
 Right in line with the Bishop’s words, Mr. Walter Scott Lee 
 says: “Knowing the corrupt lives of the priests, it is hardly neces¬ 
 sary to say that the most unspeakable corruption is prevalent every¬ 
 where in all classes of society.” 
 
 To this may be added the words of Dr. Francis E. Clark in 
 his reference to South America: “Like priest, like people. The 
 immprality of the priests is doubtless one reason for the looseness 
 of the family tie in all parts of South America.” 
 
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 55 
 
 posterity? Is that charitable spirit in you really honest, 
 or is it nurtured by selfish motives ? 
 
 This sort of questions is facing Americans today as 
 never before. You must assist in deciding them or play the 
 traitor to posterity. 
 
 Read the history of Europe from Constantine to the 
 beginning of the last century and ponder the influence of 
 Popery during the centuries. Then read the history of 
 America from A. D. 1770 to A. D. 1870 and see the progress 
 of civilization. One was held in the grasp of the Papal 
 System, the other wholly Protestant. 
 
 “Choose ye this day whom ye will serve” 
 
 If the reader desires us to be more specific in our charge, 
 we do not object. We shall therefore show that the simoom 
 of the papacy has warped and withered these nations over 
 which it has ruled intellectually, morally and financially. 
 
 1. Intellectually. 
 
 Mr. Ernest Phillips of London, in his most admirable 
 book, Papal Merchandise , names eight Roman Catholic 
 countries—Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Brazil, France, 
 Hungary, Austria and Venezuela—with a combined area of 
 4,452,275 square miles and *a population of 148,087,027, of 
 which the average is 92 per cent Roman Catholic and the per 
 cent of illiteracy is sixty. 
 
 Now take the following eight Protestant countries, and 
 note the result: Victoria, Sweden, Switzerland, Nether¬ 
 lands, Germany, 'Denmark, Great Britain and the United 
 States, with an area of 4,134,309 square miles, have a popu¬ 
 lation of 80 per cent Protestant and the illiteracy is only 
 four per cent. 
 
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 * 
 
 The following statistics were taken from the Statesman's 
 Year Book for 1887: 14 
 
 Per Cent 
 
 Papal Countries. Illiterates. 
 
 Austria. 39 
 
 Hungary. 42 
 
 Italy. 48 
 
 Portugal . 82 
 
 Spain . 63 
 
 Ireland. 21 
 
 Belgium . 12 
 
 Protestant Countries. 
 
 Germany. 
 
 Denmark. 
 
 Norway. 
 
 Sweden. 
 
 Switzerland 
 
 England. 
 
 Scotland. 
 
 Less than 1 % 
 Less than 1 % 
 Less than 1% 
 Less than 1 % 
 
 . 2y 2 % 
 
 .. 9% 
 
 .7% 
 
 On July 16, 1910, The American Citizen, East Orange, 
 N. J., published these figures: 
 
 Per Cent Am’t Per Capita 
 Country. Illiterates, for Education. 
 
 Germany. 2 $2.28 
 
 England. 9 1.24 
 
 France. 11 1.34 
 
 Ireland, Lower. 52 1.24 
 
 Ireland, Upper. 21 1.24 
 
 Hungary. 53 .42 
 
 Bohemia. 59 .44 
 
 14. Papal Merchandise. 
 
AMERICA’S MENACE 
 
 5 7 
 
 Italy, Upper. 53 .77 
 
 Italy, Central. 74 .77 
 
 Says Mr. Phillips : 15 The latest evidence of Rome’s 
 opposition to elementary education is to be found in a Home 
 Office return just issued, which gives the number of illiterate 
 voters at the general election, January, 1910. The figures 
 are as follows: 
 
 Countries. Total Poll. Illiterates. 
 
 England and Wales. 5,770,243 17,151 
 
 Scotland. 660,442 2,044 
 
 Ireland. 220,529 22,515 
 
 On examination we find that the number of illiterates in 
 each thousand polled would appear to be as follows: 
 
 England and Wales. 2.97 
 
 Scotland. 3.09 
 
 Ireland. 120.09 
 
 Was Mr. F. Hugh O’Donnell wrong 16 when he speaks of 
 Roman Catholic Education in Ireland in these words: 
 “There is perhaps no factor of Irish decay more potent in 
 evil than the ignorant, slovenly, superficial, pietistic parody 
 of instruction, which is the fate of the Irish school girl. 
 In fact, the root of the thriftless Irish home is the Nun 
 School, just as the root of the Irish National ignorance is in 
 the clericalized monopoly of all education. The female cler¬ 
 icalism, like the male clericalism starves the brains of the 
 laity by bad education, and forbids their employment when 
 they survive the starvation.” To the testimony of Mr. 
 O’Donnell another great Irish Roman Catholic offers the 
 
 15. Papal Merchandise, page 177. 
 
 16. Ruin of Education in Ireland. 
 
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 following testimony to the impotency and sham of Roman 
 Catholic education. Mr. M. J. F. McCarthy, after showing 
 the preponderance of Protestant business and professional 
 men in Ireland, says: “Why, then, is there this preponder¬ 
 ance of Protestants? I say it because there is a more gen¬ 
 eral ability and business capacity amongst them, and it is 
 easier to pick out good practical men on that side than on 
 our side. Why is there more general ability and worldly 
 capacity amongst them? I have before remarked how the 
 leaven of 'Superior’ education is three times as great in 
 proportion to the Mass amongst the Protestants as amongst 
 the Catholics.” 
 
 Do we want this System in Americaf 
 
 In the words of the American Citizen , June 25, 1910, we 
 say: “A religious system that turns out, or tolerates, as you 
 please, an average of seventy illiterates out of every hundred 
 inhabitants of the countries it controls, we wish to have no 
 hand or voice in our public education. 
 
 We must reject any interference from a system which 
 produces on an average nearly fifteen times as many igno¬ 
 rant adults as are found in Protestant countries. This class 
 of facts meets us at every point where we find the Roman 
 Catholic Church in control. For example, the New York 
 Evening Post , taking its figures from the Argentine paper, 
 the Buenos Ayres Standard , gives the following striking 
 comparison between Protestant Australia and Roman Cath¬ 
 olic Argentina: “The two countries are alike in having 
 about the same area and population and may be said to have 
 started upon their course in modern civilization at nearly 
 the same time, but in other respects there is marked dissimi¬ 
 larity. Australia has a public revenue of £29,200,000 against 
 £4,400,000 for Argentina, and a foreign commerce amount- 
 
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 ing to £132,200,000 against £34,200,000. Most striking of 
 all is the comparison which relates to educational statistics: 
 
 Argentina. Australia. 
 
 Schools. 3,233 7,282 
 
 Teachers. 7,054 15,083 
 
 Pupils. 249,700 745,300 
 
 Cost.£520,000 £2,280,000 
 
 “The reader has noticed the difference. What is the 
 cause of such wide disparity? Age, area, soil, climate, trans¬ 
 portation, population are about the same.” 
 
 What makes the differencef 
 
 This is the result of the influence of the “Holy Mother 
 Church” upon the nations. The ratio of four to sixty per 
 cent is a vast gulf out on to which every American should 
 gaze steadfastly, thoughtfully, earnestly, sympathetically, 
 before he votes the privilege to the Papal Hierarchy to take 
 possession of our public school system. 
 
 2— Morality. 
 
 The question here concerning us is, what of the moral 
 effect of the Papacy upon the nations? It is a most pro¬ 
 foundly important question to ask, since America is to be 
 brought under the Papal System. 
 
 As we have so often done in the past, we again invite 
 the reader to consider the nations existing under the direct 
 influence of Roman Catholicism. 
 
 In other words, can the good people of Portugal, Spain, 
 Italy, Mexico and South America be classed as maintain¬ 
 ing as high a code of morals as the United States, Scandi¬ 
 navia, England, Scotland and Wales? Glance at the ratio 
 of illegitimacy as set forth in another chapter before you 
 make up your mind. Think of the predominance of saloon¬ 
 keepers, estimated at 95% of the total number who are 
 
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 members of that system. Is it true or is it not true, that 
 the Papal System fails to nurture and develop those higher 
 instincts in the human mind? Is it wrong to charge that it 
 seems to deaden those finer qualities, those loftier aspira¬ 
 tions which Protestantism has developed? These questions 
 are pertinent to the issue and should be candidly disposed of 
 before the final verdict is rendered. 
 
 Rome has ruled Spain, Portugal and Italy for fourteen 
 centuries. Behold these unfortunate nations today and see 
 the moral effect of Romanism. Would any sane person for 
 a moment contend that the people of Mexico, Peru and the 
 Philippines stand as high in the scale of morals as America? 
 They have had the doctrines of Romanism dealt out to them 
 for four centuries under the direct supervision of infallibil¬ 
 ity. The very true, real and direct oracles of the Eternal 
 God have been handed out to them right hot off the reel. 
 
 Now, in all seriousness, if Romanism be such an uplift¬ 
 ing power, such a moral force, such an elevating influence, 
 then, why did it not uplift those nations over which it exer¬ 
 cised the rule? 
 
 Look back in your mind for fourteen hundred years and 
 behold the millions of people who have come into the world, 
 went into abject slavery of conscience and intellect, and 
 passed on to eternity without rising much, if any, above the 
 brute of the field. 
 
 Why did the System not lift them upf 
 
 It is the proud claim of such distinguished prelates as 
 Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop John Ireland, that Rom¬ 
 anism is the one sole, and exclusive uplifting, and civiliz¬ 
 ing force known under Heaven. Suppose we accept the 
 definition of these two prelates as true. How, then, under 
 heaven can we reconcile actual results with their claim? In 
 
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 these pages we give merely an inkling of the real influence 
 of Romanism as a power to uplift humanity and advance 
 civilization. France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, South America, 
 Mexico, and the islands of the seas, are living monuments to 
 the supreme fallacy of their claim. We challenge either or 
 both of these men to show one single nation under the blue 
 vault of heaven, where Romanism has dominated, that 
 nation was not sunken in degradation, squalor, misery, 
 ignorance, superstition, moral degeneracy, and commercial 
 bankruptcy. We dare either of these men to deny our 
 charge. 
 
 We can appreciate, that from their standpoint, our claim 
 falls short of being appreciated. We know that the best 
 Roman Catholics on earth, are those steeped in ignorance 
 and superstition. We have learned long ago that abject 
 subservience and unquestioned obedience constitute the es¬ 
 sentials of high standing in the Roman Catholic Church. 
 
 The longing for enlightenment is a mortal sin , and inde¬ 
 pendence of thought an unpardonable crime. Obedience 
 is a larger word than all the knowledge in the world. In¬ 
 telligence and morals are mere toys compared to Obedience. 
 It is a greater sin to deny the miraculous power of St. 
 Anne’s shinbone than it is to deny the existence of Almighty 
 God. 
 
 Morality indicates enlightenment, and enlightenment is 
 the grave of superstitious obedience, without which the 
 Romish graft and sham cannot flourish. Ignorance and 
 superstition are the parents of immorality, crime, degrada¬ 
 tion, squalor, mob and murder. They are the stepping- 
 stones to the growth and prosperity of Roman Catholicism. 
 
 3 .—Romanism cmd Crime. 
 
 Believing in the Christian religion with all our heart we 
 
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 bring this accusation with sad regrets. To charge the Roman 
 Catholic system of religion with producing criminals in- 
 undue proportions we fully appreciate is a grave charge. 
 
 Suffer us to first state our case plainly that it be not mis¬ 
 understood. Our contention is that the result of the train¬ 
 ing given the people by the Papal system tends to produce an 
 overplus of criminals which in point of numbers is far in 
 excess of the ratio of evangelical religious sects. In our 
 charge we do not mean to leave the impression that the peo¬ 
 ple themselves are more susceptible to crime, or more vicious 
 in their natures, but that the general influence of Papal 
 teaching fails to impress, or too feebly impresses, its sub¬ 
 jects with the enormity of wrongdoing; that it provides no 
 safe-guards to protect its subjects; that it falls short of 
 encouraging and influencing and uplifting and instilling into 
 its disciples those traits of character which raise them above 
 the lower strata of society; hence the preponderance of 
 crime is much more evident among the subjects of the 
 Papacy than among any or all religious organizations. With 
 this statement of the case we shall proceed to introduce 
 our evidence support of this charge. 
 
 Let us tarry to say that the array of witnesses we shall 
 introduce to the jury is fully competent to testify on this 
 subject, because they are in every respect acquainted with 
 the subject and have been for many centuries. Some of 
 these witnesses are still trusting the Virgin Mary for salva¬ 
 tion at this moment, and to the priest to get them out of 
 purgatory. 
 
 The first witness we shall call to the stand is staid old 
 Scotland. 
 
 Question—We show you the report of your penal insti¬ 
 tutions for the year 1902. Will you state to the jury the 
 
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 number of criminals confined in your institutions during the 
 year 1902? 
 
 Answer—Our statistics show 2,905 criminals confined 
 for the year 1902. 
 
 O.—What per cent of your total population is Roman 
 Catholic ? 
 
 A.—Only about 10 per cent. 
 
 Q.—You have testified that you have 2,905 criminals 
 confined; will you tell the jury how many of this number 
 would equal the per cent of Roman Catholics according to 
 the population of that sect in your country? 
 
 A.—About two hundred ninety. 
 
 Q.—How many of the 2,905 convicts you hold are 
 Roman Catholics ? 
 
 A.—The records show just 1,092. 
 
 Q.—Then your statistics show you have almost four 
 times as many Romanist criminals as the Papal population 
 would warrant. 
 
 A.—That is correct. 
 
 The witness may be excused for the present and we will 
 call England to the stand. 
 
 Question.—Where are you located? 
 
 Answer.—At the ’Ub of the Huniverse. 
 
 Q.—Do you have penal institutions at the hub of the 
 universe? 
 
 A.—’Pon my word, we do. 
 
 Q.—How many persons have you confined in these in¬ 
 stitutions ? 
 
 A.—In the year 1906 we had 23,806 convicts. 17 
 
 Q.—Of this number how many were Protestants? 
 
 17. Prison Register, 1906. 
 
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 A.—At the date mentioned we had 18,428 who claimed 
 to be Protestants. 
 
 Q.—How many of the total number were Papists? 
 
 A.—The records show there were 5,378. 
 
 O.—-What per cent of your population are Romanists? 
 
 A.—Only about 5 per cent. 
 
 Q.—Then your 5 per cent of Romanists furnished about 
 five times its ratio of criminals? 
 
 A.—That is correct according to our statistics. 
 
 The next witness we will call is the City of Rome. 
 
 0.—What was your population in the year 1898? 
 
 A.—My population in the year 1898 was 274,000. 
 
 Q.—During the year mentioned is it not a fact that you 
 sheltered within your confines the head of the entire Papal 
 System ? 
 
 A.—That is true. 
 
 Q.—Is it not a fact that the Pope; the alleged head, the 
 sole and direct representative of Almighty God on earth, 
 was watching over the Papists in your city during the year 
 1898? 
 
 A.—That statement is true. 
 
 Q.—In view of this admission is it not a most natural 
 assumption to expect that the universal and sole head of the 
 Papacy would have direct and moral influence upon his 
 subjects who reside right under the eaves of his holy sanctum 
 sanctorum ? 
 
 A.—One would naturally suppose so, at least. 
 
 Q.—Will you please state to the jury the number of 
 murders committed in your city during the year 1898? 
 
 A.—The records show the number to be 128. 
 
 Q.—I will ask you if it is not a fact that your popula¬ 
 tion is almost wholly Romanists? 
 
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 A.—It is. 
 
 That will do and we will call the city of London to the 
 stand. 
 
 Question.—You are the largest city in the world? 
 
 Answer.—I am. 
 
 Q.—What is your population? 
 
 A.—The population of London proper is four and one- 
 half millions, and of Greater London the population is equal 
 to seven and one-quarter millions. 
 
 Q.—Your population is largely of the Protestant faith, 
 is it not? 
 
 A.—Yes, it is. 
 
 Q.—How many murders were committed in your city 
 during the year 1898? 
 
 A.—Just seventeen. 
 
 You may be excused for the present while we call the at¬ 
 tention of the jury to the testimony of the last two witnesses 
 examined. Rome, with a population almost wholly Roman 
 Catholics, had 128 murders, while London, with her seven 
 and one-quarter millions of people, had seventeen murders. 
 In other words, Papal Rome, about eighteen times as small, 
 contributed about seven and one-half times more murders 
 than the city of London. 18 
 
 We will again call Scotland to the stand. 
 
 Q.—You will please state the number of convictions for 
 murder in your country for the years 1886 to 1905 inclusive. 
 
 A.—Twenty-four, according to our records. 
 
 Q.—Your population numbers about the same as that 
 of Ireland, does it not? 
 
 A.—It does. 
 
 18. The Roman Catholic Universe, Jan. 22, 1899. 
 
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 That will be all for this time. Ireland will please take 
 the stand. 
 
 Q.—For the years 1886 to 1905, inclusive, how many 
 persons were convicted of murder in your country? 
 
 A.—If you mane how miny murthers were committed, 
 Hiven only knows. The records show siventy-three con¬ 
 victions during the years ye mintion. 
 
 Q.—Then you are charged with three times as many 
 murders during the years 1886 to 1905 as is charged up 
 against your next door neighbor, Scotland, are you not ? 
 
 A.—B’ gorry it'looks loike it. 
 
 That will do and you may step aside. 
 
 Before we call another witness we want to state to the 
 jury that we are not compelled to call all our witnesses from 
 across the water in order to show the Papal System engen¬ 
 ders crime. The proof exists in our own land as we shall 
 proceed to show. 
 
 We will now call to the stand a state attentively watched 
 over by a high dignitary of the Papal System, and a state 
 where the Papal flag takes precedence over the glorious stars 
 and stripes, while our chief executive wines and dines with 
 those under oath to pay allegiance to a foreign power 
 before they consider their duty to their adopted country. 
 Will Massachusetts please take the stand? 
 
 Q.—I hand you this little booklet and will ask you to 
 be so kind as to tell this jury what it is. 
 
 A.—This is the report of the chaplain of the state pri¬ 
 son at Concord, Mass. 
 
 Q.—How many convicts does this report show in the 
 Concord prison? 
 
 A.—Some five hundred and sixty. 
 
 Q.—Of this number how many are Romanists? 
 
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 A. —Four hundred. 
 
 Q.—What proportion is this ratio to the Romanist 
 population of the state? 
 
 A.—More than five times their due proportion. 
 
 Q.—How many Romanists among them? 
 
 A.—Approximately seven-tenths are Romans. 
 
 Q.—What per cent of the prisoners at Deer Island 
 are Romanists? 
 
 A.—Seventy-five per cent. 
 
 Q.—At the Cambridge House of Correction what per 
 cent were Roman Catholic? 
 
 A.—Ninety per cent. 
 
 Q.—Boston is a mighty stronghold of the Papacy is 
 is not? 
 
 A.—It is. 
 
 Q.—Boston is home of Cardinal O’Connell, is it not? 
 
 A. —Yes, it is during the time he is not out yachting. 
 
 That accounts for it all and you may be excused. 
 
 We will now call the state of Missouri to the stand. 
 
 Question.—We show you the report of your state prison 
 for the year 1909-1910. From page sixteen of this report 
 will you tell the jury how many convicts were confined in 
 that institution? 
 
 Answer.—Seventeen hundred ninety-two. 
 
 Q.—How many of these claimed church affiliation? 
 
 A. —Sixteen hundred and nine. 
 
 Q.—How/many religious bodies were represented? 
 
 A. —Sixteen. 
 
 Q.—How many Romanists on the list? 
 
 A. —Three hundred and forty-nine. 
 
 Q.—This would mean, then, that about 22 per cent 
 of the total number of convicts were Romanists? 
 
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 A.—That is correct. 
 
 Q.—Then are we to understand that 78 per cent of 
 the convicts belonged to sixteen religious organizations, 
 while 22 per cent belonged to one organization? 
 
 - A.—That is correct. 
 
 Q.—Will you state how many of these convicts were 
 sent up from the city of St. Louis? 
 
 A.—Two hunded and ninety-three. 
 
 Q.—That is 16 2/3 per cent of the total, is it not? 
 
 A.—It is. 
 
 Q.—How do you account for this? 
 
 A.—Some have intimated that a part of this may be 
 due to Priest Phelen who uses his time preaching “to 
 hell with our government,” instead of looking after the 
 moral up-lift of his flock. As a sovereign state I have 
 no explanation to offer for the remarkable comparison 
 you have brought out. 
 
 The witness may give place and the state of Iowa 
 take the stand. 
 
 Question.—Handing you your warden’s report of 
 June, 1910, will you refer to page twenty-five and tell 
 the jury how many commitments were made to your in¬ 
 stitution for the years 1909-1910? 
 
 A.—Three hundred and sixty-five. 
 
 Q.—How many gave in no church connection? 
 
 A.—One hundred and eighty. 
 
 Q.—How many gave affiliations? 
 
 A.—One hundred and eighty-five. 
 
 Q.—How many religious bodies represented? 
 
 A.—Fourteen. 
 
 Q.—Of the 185 you mention, how many were Pa¬ 
 pists? 
 
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 A.—Fifty-nine. 
 
 Q.—This leaves 126, does it not, to be apportioned 
 among thirteen religious denominations? 
 
 A.—Yes, it does. 
 
 Q.—What per cent of church affiliation does this 
 
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 show? 
 
 A.—About 30 per cent. 
 
 Q.—Then about one-third of the convicts who showed 
 any church affiliation were Roman Catholics? 
 
 A.—The reports so show. 
 
 The state of Minnesota will please take the witness 
 chair. 
 
 Q.—What was the number of commitments at your 
 prison for the year 1890? 
 
 A.—Two hundred and nine. 
 
 Q.—How many church organizations represented? 
 
 A.—Twenty-one. 
 
 Q.—Of the 209 you mention as having been received 
 into the institution, how many were Romanists? 
 
 A.—Ninety. 
 
 0.—Do you mean to say chat more than 40 per cent 
 of the church members you received were Romanists? 
 
 A.—I merely give you what the warden’s report 
 shows. 
 
 Q.—How far is the state prison from St. Paul? 
 
 A.—Probably a dozen miles. 
 
 Q.—Would you not naturally suppose that Arch¬ 
 bishop Ireland’s long career in your state would have had 
 a more salutary effect on Papists as to have reduced this 
 ratio of his flock of criminals? 
 
 A.—It has become well known that the archbishop is 
 urging his Romanists to be more active in seeking public 
 
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 office, especially aspiring to the higher places in our gov¬ 
 ernment, and some have intimated that in this way he 
 means to keep them out of the penitentiary. Personally 
 I have no opinion in the matter. 
 
 You may be excused. The next witness we shall call 
 is Illinois. 
 
 Q.—Where is your state prison located? 
 
 A.—At Joliet, Ill. 
 
 Q.—We show you your report for the year 1908 and 
 will ask you to tell the jury how many persons you had 
 in this institution on September 30, 1908? 
 
 A.—Fifteen hundred and forty. 
 
 Q.—How many of this number claimed no church 
 membership? 
 
 A.—Twenty-eight. 
 
 Q.—How many were or had been church members? 
 
 A.—Fifteen hundred and twelve. 
 
 Q.—Of this number how many were Roman Cath¬ 
 olics? 
 
 A.—Six hundred and sixty-six. 
 
 Q.—How many religious sects were represented all 
 told? 
 
 A.—Eighteen. 
 
 Q.—Then you mean to say that seventeen relijious 
 denominations represented 946, an average of about 
 fifty-six, while the Papal church stretched its saving wings 
 over 666? 
 
 A.—That is what the warden’s report shows and is 
 doubtless correct. 
 
 Q.—From your testimony over 70 per cent of the con¬ 
 victs in the Illinois state prison at Joliet on the thirtieth 
 
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 day of September, 1908, were members of the Roman 
 Catholic church? 
 
 A.—Such is the verdict of the records for that date. 
 
 Q.—What per cent of the convicts were sent to your 
 prison from Cook county (Chicago), Illinois? 
 
 A.—About 68 per cent. 
 
 Q.—The city of Chicago comprises about one-third 
 of the state’s population, does it not? 
 
 A.—It does. 
 
 Q.—Then how do you account for more than two- 
 thirds of the convicts coming from that city? It has 
 about two hundred Roman Catholic churches, numerous 
 priestly palaces, schools without number, nunneries 
 galore, retreats here and there, and some saloons and 
 bawdy houses, all belonging to the Papacy. Would it 
 not be the most natural thing in the world for an outsider 
 to assume that this vast aggregation of Papal parapher¬ 
 nalia would be sufficient to hold crime in check? 
 
 A.—One would naturally think so. 
 
 Q.—Chicago is the chief seat of the Papacy west of 
 New York and Boston, is it not? 
 
 A.—It is. 
 
 You may step aside and let Massachusetts take the 
 stand. 
 
 Q.—Handing you this little pamphlet will you please 
 tell the jury what it is? 
 
 A.—This is the report of the Hon. Dexter A. Haw¬ 
 kins, of the Massachusetts public and parochial schools. 
 
 Q.—Will you tell the jury how many criminals this 
 report shows per ten thousand population as computed 
 by Mr. Hawkins? 
 
 A.—For the public schools he shows eleven criminals 
 
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 to ten thousand population and he also shows 160 crim¬ 
 inals to the same number of inhabitants for the parochial 
 schools. 
 
 Q.—Can you give the jury any reason for the marvel¬ 
 ous discrepancy in the ratio of the criminals furnished 
 by these two classes of schools? Cardinal O’Connell lives 
 at Boston and has full jurisdiction over the youth of 
 Massachusetts, and it is no stretch of the imagination to 
 suppose that his close contact with his youth would re¬ 
 dound to the moral uplift of his people, would it not? 
 
 A.—Possibly you have forgotten that the cardinal is 
 a foreigner; he believes in things foreign, even to the 
 placing of a foreign flag over the stars and stripes. Fur¬ 
 thermore, he is much engaged with state and national 
 politics and it may be the poor man is worked to death 
 with these things and has not time to bother with so 
 trivial a subject as the youth of the land. 
 
 We will again call Scotland to testify as touching two 
 or three points. 
 
 Q.—What was the Roman Catholic population of Scot¬ 
 land in 1887? 
 
 A.—According to the home secretary’s report it was 
 one-twentieth. 
 
 Q.—Using this same report what proportion of the 
 criminals were Papists? 
 
 A.—The report shows that one-half of the criminals 
 were Romanists. 
 
 The next witness we will call in is Australia. 
 
 Q.—What per cent of your population are Roman¬ 
 ists? 
 
 A.—The statistics show about three-tenths. 
 
 Q.—What per cent of the criminals are Romanists? 
 
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 A. —One-half. 
 
 You may step aside while Ireland takes the stand. 
 
 Q.—What ratio of your population are Romanists? 
 
 A.—Quite two-thirds. 
 
 Q.—What per cent of the crimes committed- were 
 committed by Romanists? 
 
 A.—Statistics show that six-sevenths of the crime i? 
 chargeable to the members of the Papal church. 
 
 We propose at this time calling a nation to testify, 
 which has been withered and warped for a thousand years 
 by the Papal hierarchy. Will France please take the stand? 
 
 Q.—Do you now maintain a free public school sys- 
 tern? 
 
 A.—We do. 
 
 Q.—You also permit parochial sectarian schools, do 
 you not? 
 
 A.—That is true. 
 
 Q.—Have you at any time made a comparison of 
 these schools along the lines of ascertaining the ratio of 
 criminals furnished by the two systems? 
 
 A.—We have. 
 
 Q.—You will please give the jury the result of 
 your comparisons. 
 
 A.—This subject was taken up some time ago and it 
 was found that while our public schools furnished 5.55 
 crimes and 22.29 offenses, the parochial schools furnished 
 65.1 crimes and 95.5 offenses, the reckoning being based 
 on ten thousand population. 
 
 That will do for the present. We will again ask per¬ 
 mission to place on the stand a nation which has had its 
 full share of suffering at the hands of the Papal church. 
 Ireland will please take the stand. 
 
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 Q.—Some time ago you had occasion to compile an 
 official report concerning juvenile offenders, did you not? 
 
 A.—B’ gorry and we did sor. 
 
 Q.—What is the sum and substance of that report? 
 
 A.—Faith, and we found in our reform schools 1,099 
 juveniles. 
 
 Q.—How were they divided as to religious belief? 
 
 A.—The report shows there were 143 Protestants and 
 956 Romanists. 
 
 Q.—You testified some little time ago that only about 
 two-thirds of your population were adherents to the 
 Papal church, did you not? 
 
 A.—I did, sor. 
 
 Q.—Then with 66 per cent of the population the Ro¬ 
 manists furnished almost 90 per cent of the derelicts? 
 
 A.—That is true, sor. 
 
 Gentlemen of the jury; I shall not tax your patience 
 with questioning many more witnesses, but my interest in 
 our neighbor, Mexico, prompts me to ask a few ques¬ 
 tions before I rest my case. Will Mexico please take the 
 stand for just a moment? 
 
 Q.—How long has your land been under the rule of 
 the Papacy? 
 
 A.—Almost 400 years. 
 
 Q.—Do you maintain a public school system? 
 
 A.—Yes, since the last fifty years. 
 
 Q.—Then you formerly did not have such a system? 
 
 A.—No, we had parochial schools. 
 
 Q.—What is the per cent of illiterates in your coun¬ 
 
 try? 
 
 A.—It is now about 93 per cent, but formerly, when 
 
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 the church had the education of our youth, the percent¬ 
 age of illiterates was far greater. 
 
 Q.—At that time you maintained many monasteries 
 and nunneries, did you not? 
 
 A.—We did. 
 
 Q.—The monks and nuns largely had the education 
 of the youth in hand, did they not? 
 
 A.—Si, signor. 
 
 Q.—How do you account for the laxity in education 
 with so many teachers? 
 
 A.—They do not teach the youth how to live; they 
 teach them how to die. 
 
 Q.—Then, that, in part, accounts, in your mind, why 
 your country has been dead to the world for four cen¬ 
 turies? 
 
 A.—You can draw your own conclusions. 
 
 We next call Allegheny County, Pa. 
 
 Q.—We hand you this report, will you explain to the 
 jury what it is ? 
 
 A.—This is the Allegheny, Pa., Workhouse and In¬ 
 ebriate report for the year 1912. 
 
 Q.—How many inmates in this institution on the 
 date named? 
 
 A.—There were 3,674 persons. 
 
 Q.—Of this number how many were Roman Cath¬ 
 olics ? 
 
 A.—There were 2,016 Roman Catholics. 
 
 Q.—Then the Roman Catholics, with about 23% of 
 the population of Allegheny County, furnished 10% more 
 prisoners than all the religious sects combined? In other 
 words, with less than 25% of the population they furnish 
 about 60% of all the criminals. 
 
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 A.—This is what the report shows. 
 
 We next call Arizona. 
 
 Q.—Your state has a penitentiary, has it not? 
 
 A.—It has. 
 
 Q.—We hand you the year book of this penitentiary 
 for the year ending June 30, 1913. Please read to the 
 jury the religious statistics of this institution. 
 
 A.—This report shows 519 inmates of which 349 are 
 Roman Catholics, and 100 divided with all other religi¬ 
 ous sects, while 70 profess no religious affiliations. 
 
 Q.—Then Arizona parochial schools furnish 70% 
 more inmates than all others combined? 
 
 A.—The report so shows. 
 
 Says Mr. Ernest Phillips: 19 “In a leading article on 
 Criminal Statistics for Scotland, for the year 1901, the 
 Scotman said: Tf Scotland could keep out the Irish, its 
 crime would be reduced by about two-fifths. On the last 
 day of 1901, the prisoners in the Scottish prisons consisted 
 of 1,620 Scots, 167 English, 1092 Irish, and 26 foreigners. 
 The religious denominations were: 1,633 Presbyterians, 165 
 Episcopalians, 1,103 Roman Catholics, and 4 of other de¬ 
 nominations. The Roman Catholics are about ten per cent 
 of the population, so with all their claims and pretensions, 
 they are about five times as criminal as the Protestants.’ ” 
 
 Statistics taken from the census of 1870, show to each 
 ten thousand population, how nearly parochial schools come 
 to squaring with our public schools. 
 
 Illiter¬ 
 
 ates. 
 
 By Public Schools of 21 States. .. . 350 
 By Roman Catholic Schools.1,400 
 
 Paup- Crim- 
 
 ers. inals. 
 
 170 75 
 
 410 160 
 
 19. Papal Merchandise, p. 185. 
 
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 “In the state of New York the Roman Catholic Parochial 
 School System turns out three and a half times as many 
 paupers, criminals and moral degenerates as the public 
 school system. No wonder Macaulay says of Ultra-Mon¬ 
 tane Education, that under its power the loveliest and most 
 fertile provinces of Europe have been sunk in poverty, 
 political servitude, and intellectual torpor.” 
 
 It is not surprising that such conditions exist when the 
 leaders harbor those pagan opinions credited to one of the 
 leading Papal publications. “We. do not, indeed, prize as 
 highly as some of our countrymen appear to do, the ability 
 to read, write, and cipher. We believe that the peasantry 
 in Catholic countries two centuries ago were better educated, 
 though for the most part unable to read and write, than 
 are the American people today.” 20 
 
 The foregoing furnishes most serious thought to every 
 American, be he Protestant or Papist. No man can go be¬ 
 hind these statistics. They are accepted as correct by the 
 various departments of governments and given out with¬ 
 out one challenge as to their correctness. 
 
 What does it all mean? 
 
 We leave it for the American who thinks we stand in no 
 danger from the aggression of the Papal Hierarchy to de¬ 
 cide for himself. Suffer us one question in concluding. 
 Do we want Rome rule or Home rule in our Fair America? 
 
 Our charge is that the education imparted by the Papal 
 System tends to deaden the enormity of wrong-doing; that 
 it educates its subjects to fear eternal torment and unques- 
 tioningly accept the Papal Catechism, and thus become 
 good Papists at the expense of leaving undeveloped those 
 
 20. Catholic Review, April, 1871. 
 
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 finer qualities and loftier aspirations which make real men 
 and women. 
 
 Were our charges untrue, pray tell us why the morals of 
 those nations living for centuries under Papal influence 
 have ever been at the lowest ebb? Would any sane person 
 attempt to prove that Papal nations stand.as high morally as 
 Northern Europe or the United States? Let us not over¬ 
 look the fact that the same power of the priestcraft in 
 America would mean precisely the same conditions with 
 us as obtain in Papal countries now and in the past. No 
 one can deny that the standard of our present morality is 
 influenced by the withering breath of the Papacy. The ob¬ 
 servance of the Sabbath day has lost much of its Puritan 
 atmosphere. Sunday baseball, picnics, beer parties and the 
 like are largely the influence of Papal teaching. 
 
 In 1852 the well-known Dr. Wylie summed up Popery 
 in these words: 
 
 “It depopulates kingdoms, annihilates industry, destroys 
 commerce, corrupts governments, arrests justice, under¬ 
 mines order, breeds revolution, extinguishes morality, and 
 nourishes a brood of monstrous vices, murder, perjury, 
 adultery, indolence and theft, massacres and wars. It en¬ 
 feebles and destroys the race of man, and annihilates the 
 very cement of society. Popery has been on its trial for 
 many centuries; and evil are the effects which it has pro¬ 
 duced under Heaven where it has existed. It is truly the 
 abomination that maketh desolate 
 
 The Forty-Third Annual Report of the Allegheny 
 County Workhouse and Inebriate Asylum for 1912 givesf 
 the following table of statistics. According to this report 
 there were 3,674 inmates in this institution, divided accord¬ 
 ing to the following: 
 
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 79 
 
 Roman Catholics .2,016 
 
 Methodists . 529 
 
 Baptists . 408 
 
 Presbyterians . 291 
 
 Lutherans . 180 
 
 Episcopalians . 60 
 
 Jews. 29 
 
 Other Sects. 78 
 
 No Church affiliation. 83 
 
 The Parochial Schools turned out almost 10% more in¬ 
 mates than all the denominations combined. As a rule good 
 Papists are necessarily paupers. 
 
 The Bisbee Daily Review gives the following statistics, 
 taken from the Warden’s report of the Arizona penitentiary, 
 
 dated June 30, 1913: 
 
 Roman Catholics .249 
 
 Protestants. 96 
 
 Mormons . 2 
 
 Buddhists . 1 
 
 Salvation Army . 1 
 
 No Religion. 70 
 
 The Parochial Schools of Arizona seem to be perform¬ 
 ing their task well to give us almost 70% more convicts 
 than all others combined. What if the Parochial School 
 were general all over America f 
 
 The Minnesota penitentiary is located at Stillwater, 
 Minn., and about twelve miles from Archbishop John Ire¬ 
 land’s $100,000 dome. It is a model institution, under the 
 supervision of Warden Wolfer. 
 
 Note the following, which was taken from an issue 
 of the “Menace 
 
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 Looks Bad For Rome. 
 
 “A friend of ours in Minnesota has just sent us a let« 
 ter from the Warden of the State penitentiary, located at 
 Stillwater, in which he gives our friend some very inter¬ 
 esting statistical data concerning the inmates of the insti¬ 
 tution, at the close of the fiscal year, July 31, 1912. The 
 number of inmates at that time was 824, and their religious 
 
 affiliations were as follows: 
 
 Adventists . 4 
 
 Baptists . 28 
 
 Catholics.334 
 
 Christians. 12 
 
 Congregationalists . 3 
 
 Episcopalians. 20 
 
 Evangelicans . 3 
 
 Friends . 2 
 
 Jewish. 7 
 
 Lutherans.150 
 
 Methodists . 67 
 
 Mohammedans.’.. 2 
 
 No Religion. 75 
 
 Protestants . 93 
 
 Presbyterians . 20 
 
 Reform Church . 4 
 
 Is it possible that the public schools are any more god¬ 
 less than are the parochial schools which produce such a 
 large percentage of the inmates of the Minnesota state peni¬ 
 tentiary? Let “Father Phelan” answer. 
 
 4 .—Financial aid of the Papacy to Nations. 
 
 Mr. Ernest Phillips, in his Papal Merchandise , has gone 
 into the subject of comparing the stocks and bonds of 
 Protestant and Papal countries as no other writer seems 
 
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 to have done and his conclusions will be summed up in his 
 own words: “It is remarkable that not a single Greek or 
 Roman Catholic stock appears on the list until after the 
 last Protestant stock has taken its place. All the Protestant 
 stocks yield less than £4 per cent, India and Egypt being 
 under British rule, yield less than £4 per cent. The differ¬ 
 ence between the average Roman Catholic yield of £5, Is, 6d 
 per cent, and the average Protestant yield of £3, 8s, lOd 
 per cent, is £1, 12s, 8d per cent. 
 
 “Twenty Roman Catholic countries (including France 
 and Italy) pay 16s, 8d per cent more, on the average, for 
 their loans than the twenty Protestant countries/’ 
 
 The same may be said of municipal stocks and b6nds. 
 Take the bonds of our cities in the United States and 
 Canada and compare them with Mexico and South Amer¬ 
 ican municipalities. The difference is most marked, again. 
 “The average rate.” says Mr. Phillips, “paid per cent for 
 loans raised by these thirteen municipalities in Protestant 
 countries is £4, 9d. While the eight Roman Catholic mu¬ 
 nicipalities is £5, 3s, 9d per cent, being a saving of £1, 3s 
 per cent in favor of the Protestant communities.” Go. a 
 step farther and inquire into, 21 the trade returns of the 
 various countries and you will be impressed, to a marked 
 degree, with the striking difference in Protestant countries. 
 Tq illustrate, we follow Mr. Phillips in his selection of per 
 capita trade returns of thirty-nine countries, with these re¬ 
 
 sults : 
 
 18 Protestant per capita.$99.94 
 
 21 Roman Catholic per capita. 23.23 
 
 Down under the surface of these statistics there is a 
 reason why the withering influence of some power has held 
 
 21. Papal Merchandise, p. 196. 
 
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 back these several and certain countries. The Papacy ha? 
 been the dominating power in them for from four to a 
 dozen centuries. Has its influence been such as to recom¬ 
 mend it to dominate the United States of Americaf 
 
 Only a few months ago, we came across statistics gath¬ 
 ered by Mr. Ernest Phillips, 22 showing that practically 
 every nation since the birth of Roman Catholicism which 
 has ever been under the iron heel of the System, has been 
 bankrupt. Spain, Portugal, South America, Mexico, have 
 passed from one to five times through bankruptcy, while 
 Great Britain has not had one colony to suffer a similar 
 fate. 
 
 The following summary, compiled by Mr. Phillips, 23 
 serves to illustrate our point. This table shows the coun¬ 
 tries, which during the nineteenth century, were in a state 
 
 of bankruptcy: 
 
 Roman Catholic.17 
 
 Pagan . 2 
 
 Greek Church . 1 
 
 Mohammedan . 1 
 
 Total .21 
 
 In leaving this department of our investigation we can 
 do no better than ask the question, Why have all Papal 
 countries been bankrupts? Many of them possessed natural 
 resources unsurpassed by any country on the globe. Geo¬ 
 graphical position fitted all of them to successfully com¬ 
 pete with the world. Climatic conditions fitted them to be 
 the garden spots of the earth. 
 
 22. Papal Merchandise, p. 180. 
 
 23. Ibid, p. 181. 
 
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 83 
 
 Why did they not advance to a higher place in the com¬ 
 mercial world? 
 
 We have shown that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy has 
 had a most damaging effect upon nations, that it tends to 
 impede the progress of nations over which it has ever exer¬ 
 cised power. We will now briefly show that its influence 
 upon individuals has had a like effect. The following, taken 
 from one of our booklets, 23 sets forth the subject: 
 
 5 .—The Papacy and Pauperism. 
 
 A Michael Angelo could fill the artistic world with 
 wonder and admiration, but a score of Angelos could never 
 paint the full measure of the sufferings and the misery of 
 Romanists of the Papal states. 
 
 Multitudes of magnificent churches with their gilded 
 spires pointing heavenward have housed armies of sleek 
 priests, monks and nuns, while myriads of devout Papists 
 have suffered for the lack of the most common things of life, 
 and from whom millions upon millions of hard earned dol¬ 
 lars have been grafted to enrich the Papal System and sat¬ 
 isfy its insatiable greed for lucre. This may strike the reader 
 as a bit severe, but mark you well, the picture is not over¬ 
 drawn one whit. When we make the charge that the Papal 
 System manufactures paupers, we did not do so until we 
 had become convinced by personal observation and reliable 
 statistics fully sustaining the charge. If you still question 
 the charge, all we ask is that you visit those countries where 
 the Papal System has held the power and we have no fear 
 of further criticism. Go to southern Italy, southern Ire¬ 
 land, South America, Mexico and the islands of the sea and 
 behold the squalor and want such as is not only unbelievable 
 but unthinkable in this twentieth century of abundance. 
 
 23. The Simon of the Papacy, pp. 24-26. 
 
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 Lord Macaulay by no means overdrew the picture when 
 he said of Papal Rome: “The population seemed to consist 
 of foreigners, priests and paupers.” 
 
 The British Medical Journal some years ago commented 
 on the subject, using these words: “The splendid newly 
 built Catholic church, the well built convent, now and then 
 the bishop’s palace, rise among the wretched cabins of some 
 of the poorest people in the world.” 
 
 Trace the pauperism of the United States and you will 
 find the victims, the down and outs, the distressed and dis¬ 
 couraged, are to a very large degree, the children of the 
 Papacy. Go to our great cities and right under the eaves of 
 the magnificent sanctuaries you will find those nearest to 
 pauperism. 
 
 ’Twas just a few days ago the writer had occasion to send 
 a representative to investigate a call for aid and found a 
 man, a wife and eight children without the common neces¬ 
 saries of life. They are all members of the Papal System 
 and live within a few blocks of an elegant Romish church 
 and a sleek priest housed in a new thirty thousand dollar 
 house of a dozen or more rooms to accommodate an un¬ 
 married man. Should this poor son of the papacy die, this 
 elegantly housed priest would, no doubt, be on hand to col¬ 
 lect from the widow for the funeral mass and an additional 
 sum later on for praying the poor dwarfed soul out of 
 purgatory. While he lives and remains a Romanist, is it 
 becoming for Protestants to support the family? 
 
 Some four years ago in the city of Belfast, which is said 
 to be mainly Protestant, there were a few less than four 
 thousand inmates of the workhouse, and about one-half 
 were members of the Papal church. In Glasgow, where the 
 Romanists number only about one-fifth, double the propor- 
 
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 tion of helpless children were the product of the Papal 
 System,. 
 
 In the official report of the poor departments of Protest¬ 
 ant England, the Papal paupers were well nigh as many as 
 all the others combined. The following comparison illus¬ 
 trates a fair ratio of paupers of the Papal system: 
 
 
 Protestant 
 
 Papal 
 
 Liverpool . ... 
 
 .5,158 
 
 4,112 
 
 Manchester . .. 
 
 .:.1,295 
 
 1,154 
 
 
 6,453 
 
 5,266 
 
 In Mexico 
 
 many grand church edifices stand 
 
 on im- 
 
 portant corners in every city of any consequence, and yet 
 the wretchedness, the squalor, the misery and the degreda- 
 tion of the masses is a blot upon present day civilization. 
 
 Read the unanimous verdict of travelers through Ire¬ 
 land and note the change from thrift and comfort in north 
 Ireland, to the pauperized, Romanized, wretchedness in 
 south central Ireland. In the space of a few miles one 
 sees a well contented, progressive people enjoying the fruits 
 of their toil. Farther along he sees a change come over the 
 landscape. He sees an ambitionless, poverty stricken, semi- 
 civilized folk with a single asset, their names are recorded 
 in one of the great churches close at hand. 
 
 Some years ago there were 8,394 paupers in the state of 
 Massachusetts, and about five-eighths of the total were of 
 Irish Catholic parentage. One would suppose that Cardinal 
 O’Connell would pay some attention to his starving off¬ 
 spring. Lest we forget, we will call the cardinal’s attention 
 to the Thirty-fourth Report of the Tewksbury state alms 
 house in his state, and in which report there is given 2,362 
 inmates of this institution, over 40 per cent of which were 
 
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 Roman Catholics. We wonder how much they contributed 
 to the elegant yacht for the cardinal to pace the high seas. 
 
 In concluding this chapter we can do no better than 
 quote the words of Lord Macaulay: “Whoever, knowing 
 what Italy and Scotland naturally are, and what, 400 years 
 ago, they actually were, shall now compare the country 
 round Rome with the country round Edinburgh, will be 
 able to form some judgment as to the tendency of Papal 
 domination. The descent of Spain, once the first among 
 monarchies, to the lowest depths of degradation; the eleva¬ 
 tion of Holland, in spite of many natural disadvantages, to 
 a position such as no commonwealth so small has ever 
 reached, teach the same lesson. Whoever passes in Ger¬ 
 many from a Roman Catholic to a Protestant principality ; 
 in Switzerland from a Roman Catholic to a Protestant can¬ 
 ton; in Ireland from a Roman Catholic to a Protestant 
 county, finds that he has passed from a lower to a higher 
 grade of civilization. On the other side of the Atlantic 
 the same law prevails. The Protestants of the United 
 States have left far behind them the Roman Catholics of 
 Mexico, Peru and Brazil. The Roman Catholics of lower 
 Canada remain inert, while the whole continent round them 
 is in a ferment with Protestant activity and enterprise. ,, 
 
 At the Roman Catholic Congress, held in the City of 
 Montreal, Sept. 2, 1912, that sleek stall-fed English Jesuit 
 priest, Bernard Vaughan, said: “1 think it is a grand thing 
 to see a woman take in washing ” This is the Jesuit about 
 whom the silly American newspapers have so much to say 
 when he comes to America on a rich woman-taming expedi¬ 
 tion. 
 
 We have used this illustration merely to show that the 
 purpose of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is to hold their 
 
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 people down in mental and moral slavery, in order that it 
 may hold power and dominion over the masses. 
 
 Thus, throughout the centuries it has builded its massive 
 superstructure at the expense of the manhood, the moral 
 and intellectual development of the people. 
 
 When you review the riches, splendor, and luxury of 
 this ponderous system, don’t for one moment forget that it 
 has been builded by robbing billions of human beings of 
 those characteristics and privileges which are implanted in 
 man by the Eternal God. 
 
 The following is quoted by Mr. Ernest Phillips 24 from 
 the Bulwark for August, 1910: “The annual report of an 
 Inspector of Poor is a Mirror of life: civilized life! for ex¬ 
 ample, the report of the Glasgow Parish shows that the' 
 Parish is responsible for 2,088 boarded-out children. Of 
 these, 466 are orphans, 229 are deserted, and 1,393 are sep¬ 
 arated from parents, 1,253 are Protestants, and 835 Roman 
 Catholics. Note here that Roman Catholics claim to be one- 
 fifth of the population. The proportion of boarded-out 
 children is eight-twentieths, that is two-fifths, or just double 
 the claimed rate.” The same writer tells us that “The 
 Roman Catholic inmates of London work-houses are four¬ 
 teen per cent of the total, and yet according to the Daily 
 Mail Year Book of the Churches, 1908, the percentage of 
 Romanists in London county is 9.32, and in Greater Lon¬ 
 don, 6.17.” We need to do no more than mention to the 
 well-informed reader the state of the people in Italy, Portu¬ 
 gal, South America and Mexico. Papalized to the core, 
 pauperized to the shame and everlasting condemnation of 
 any system existing in this glorious twentieth century of 
 abounding prosperity, even statistics are inadequate to meas- 
 
 24. Papal Merchandise, p. 183. 
 
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 ure the squalor, the human degradation of these peoples 
 who have basked in the glorious uplift and civilizing in¬ 
 fluence of Roman Catholicism for centuries. 
 
 How zvould such a System fit in, in America? 
 
 A Tree is known by its fruits. 
 
CHAPTER VII. 
 
 THE HIERARCHY IN AMERICA. 
 
 “Know this also, that in the last days perilous times shall come." 
 
 In this chapter we propose reviewing briefly the Papal 
 Hierarchy in America. We have already had somewhat 
 to say in a general way of that System. We have shown 
 its influence upon nations over which it has held the bal¬ 
 ance of power for centuries. We have gone a step further 
 and hinted at some of its aims in our own land. It now 
 remains for us to more specifically lay bare these aspira¬ 
 tions, which we will do under the caption: 
 
 Do Papists Hope to Reduce America to Papal Rule? 
 
 Not a few who read these words will smile at such a 
 question. Others, with an air of disgust, will say the ques¬ 
 tion is too silly to give a second thought. Some will marvel 
 that the signs of the times are such as to make even such 
 a supposition possible. We shall follow our custom of 
 merely presenting the case and leave the reader to draw 
 his own conclusions. 
 
 1 .—Does Popery aspire to rule America? 
 
 It is a well-known fact that since A. D. 1870 relations 
 at the Vatican have been more or less strained. The old 
 time temporal power, so fondly fostered and faithfully 
 fondled by Popery, has well nigh universally slipped away. 
 
 When King Emmanuel marched into the city of Rome, 
 in 1870, the funeral dirge of the temporal power of the 
 Papacy was chanted and prophecy fulfilled. During the 
 almost half a century since that memorable occasion it is 
 
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 alleged that Popery has, more or less, smarted under the 
 restraint of being forced to devote its inexhaustible re¬ 
 sources merely to the task of dealing out spiritual unction 
 to mankind. It has divers times been hinted that the Pope, 
 at times, has grown restless because he felt he was wasting 
 his valuable time treating merely the spiritual side of man, 
 whpi by direct and Divine command he zvas delegated to a 
 much wider scope. No sooner did Italy sidestep than 
 France, Spain, Portugal, Mexico and the Islands of the Sea 
 began to doubt the divine right of the Vatican to rule in 
 affairs temporal. Thus the prodigious stock of divine 
 unction stored in the Vatican began to grow musty because 
 of disuse, and it is alleged that there is a great need of some 
 country where this divinely delegated power can be unbot¬ 
 tled and spread abroad. 
 
 A feeler was thrown out to both England and Germany, 
 but past experiences forbade anything like a warm welcome. 
 Russia, China and Japan are not all desirable because of 
 divers reasons. 
 
 These introductory words lead us to remark that the 
 only logical and plausible country on the globe where 
 Popery could possibly secure the balance of power is 
 America. 
 
 1. This is true, because under our constitution, religious 
 liberty is granted to all, and such a soil is most conducive to 
 the schemes of the Jesuits. 
 
 2. Religious toleration has been so thoroughly instilled 
 into our makeup that we are accustomed to wink at many 
 things other nations would hardly permit to pass un¬ 
 noticed. 
 
 3. Corrupt politics, the buying and selling of votes, the 
 boss rule of our political convention system has made it 
 
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 possible to pick men to champion certain measures for the 
 special benefit of classes and sects. 
 
 4. The utter carelessness of Protestant people as to the 
 aggression of errors of many sorts. 
 
 5. The inexcusable ignorance of the average American 
 as to what has taken place in the past, and what is today 
 taking place in all parts of our country. 
 
 6. The steadfastness to political parties has been the 
 means of allowing men of the baser sort to acquire power 
 to be used in most questionable practices. 
 
 AJ1 these things conduce to opening our doors to the 
 Papacy and to its preempting our land. For a quarter of a 
 century these conditions have been taken advantage of by 
 the Papacy until, as we have already stated, it practically 
 controls our army and navy and our chief ports as well. 
 Had Mr. Taft been president two terms more we do not 
 hesitate to say we would either be engrossed with a cruel 
 war, or America would be Papist. Later developments go 
 to show that Mr. Wilson’s attitude is little improvement 
 over Mr. Taft’s. 
 
 But this is not now pertinent to the question. The ques¬ 
 tion is, Does Popery aspire to rule America? We shall 
 assist the reader in framing his answer to the extent of 
 permitting Papists to bear testimony. 
 
 1. “With deep sorrow we are not constrained to have 
 recourse to the arm of justice and are obliged to take action 
 again at a nation that has rejected the Pope as head of all 
 church and state governments. 
 
 “In virtue, therefore, of the divine authority by which 
 we have been placed on this supreme throne of justice, an 
 office so superior to our capability, we do, in the plenitude 
 of apostolic power, declare that all heretics and the eV 
 
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 couragers of heresy, together with all adherents, have in¬ 
 curred the sentence of excommunication, and they are 
 hereby cut off from the unity of the body of Jesus Christ/’ 
 —Extracts from the Encyclical Letter of Providence Pope. 
 
 2. “We have taken this principle for basis—that the 
 Catholic religion with all its rights, ought to be exclusively 
 dominant, in such sort that every other worship shall be 
 banished, and interdicted. It is a cause of supreme bitter¬ 
 ness to the heart of the Holy Father not to be able otherwise 
 to impose a limit to so much evil, as he certainly would if 
 he could make use of other means to bridle their insane 
 license.”—Pope Pius IX. 
 
 3. “America is at heart a Christian country. As a reli- 
 ligious system, Protestantism is in hopeless dissolution, ut¬ 
 terly valueless as a doctrinal or moral power, and no 
 longer to be considered a foe with which we must count. 
 The Catholic church is the sole living and enduring Chris¬ 
 tian authority.”—Archbishop Ireland, St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 4. “I acknowledge no civil power: I am the subject 
 of no prince, and I claim more than this, to be the supreme 
 judge and director of the consciences of men. I am sole, 
 last, supreme judge of what is right and wrong. Moreover 
 we declare, affirm, define and pronounce it to be necessary 
 to salvation to every human creature.”—Cardinal Manning, 
 speaking in the name of the Pope. 
 
 5. “We declare, say, define and pronounce it to be al¬ 
 together necessary to salvation, that every human creature 
 should be subject to the Roman pontiff.”—From the Canon 
 law of the Papal Church. 
 
 6. “The Church has the right to prevent the state from 
 granting the public exercise of their own worship to per¬ 
 sons immigrating into it.”—Syllabus of Pius IX. 
 
AMERICA’S MENACE 
 
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 7. “There has never been a period in American his¬ 
 tory when the church’s opportunity has been so close to her. 
 To a great extent the ancient antagonisms have died. Pro- 
 testanism is disintegrating before our eyes. The moment is 
 ripe to build a Catholic America, and strong men are now 
 laying the foundation .”—The World (Catholic). 
 
 8. “The pope has given the order to make America 
 
 Catholic. . . . The first step in the making will be the 
 
 election of one of the American Cardinals to the Papacy, 
 the removal of St. Peter’s to Washington. Cardinal Gib¬ 
 bons is to be made president and every non-Catholic will 
 be driven out of the army and navy .”—Catholic Sun. 
 
 9. “Never, I believe, since that century, the dawn of 
 which was the glimmer from the Eastern Star, was there 
 prepared for Catholics of any nation of earth a work so 
 noble in its nature and so pregnant with consequences as 
 that which it is our mission to accomplish. The work 
 defines the measure of the responsibility. 
 
 “The work is to make America Catholic, as we love 
 America as we love the church, it suffices to mention the 
 work, and our cry shall be, “God wills it,” and our hearts 
 shall leap toward it with Crusader enthusiasm.”—Arch¬ 
 bishop Ireland, before the Roman Catholic Congress at Bal¬ 
 timore, Nov. 10, 1889. 
 
 10. “I expect to see America classed as a Catholic 
 nation. 
 
 “Decadent France shows the baneful influence of her war 
 against the Catholic Church. 
 
 “I never could understand how many intelligent Chris¬ 
 tians could honestly oppose Catholicism.”—Cardinal Logue. 
 (Head of Catholic Church in Ireland.) 
 
 11 . “How near at hand do you think is the time when 
 
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 America will be dominantly Catholic? Things move on 
 with -rapid strides these days, and the recent creation of 
 three American Cardinals has brought the church once more 
 to the forefront. 
 
 “We must labor to gain the confidence, love and respect 
 of the American people. This once gained, the Catholic 
 Church, in her way to claim the American heart, may carry 
 a thousand dogmas on her back .”—Catholic Missionary 
 Union. 
 
 The temptation to inject a few remarks about these 
 utterances is not easy to check, but our purpose is to give 
 facts and leave the reader to form his own conclusions. 
 We want to remark, however, in passing, that the evidence 
 we have set forth seems clearly to point to a plot which is 
 deeper than the saving of men’s souls. It is the duty of 
 every intelligent, patriotic American to think of these things. 
 If there be nothing more under the surface than a con¬ 
 suming zeal to uplift humanity, no evil effect shall have 
 resulted from the investigation. 
 
 What if the investigation showed otherwisef Do not 
 take our word for it. Study closely the assertions of 
 Papists themselves. If they speak words of truth, then it 
 behooves true Americans to think seriously, deeply, sanely. 
 
 The Jesuit in America. 
 
 Furthermore, has it ever occurred to you that the Jesuit, 
 the vulture, the scavenger of the Papacy, has taken up his 
 abode with us in America. Maybe you do not know who 
 this papal parasite is, therefore we introduce him by saying 
 that he has been exiled from almost every country under 
 the sun from one to five times. He is the gentleman whom 
 Pope Clement XIII., in 1773, suppressed, and gave his rea- 
 
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 sons for abolishing the order in these words: “I do not 
 give my reasons for the abolishment of the order of Jesuits 
 because their practices and the precepts enunciated by them 
 are so absolutely infamous and demoralizing that I do not 
 wish to use the language which is required to describe them. 
 After four years of careful consideration, and the utmost 
 pains taken to ascertain the truth about this order, I am 
 compelled to abolish it.” 
 
 A few months later Pope Clement was found dead in 
 his bed, poisoned by the Jesuits, who also assassinated 
 Presidents Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley, and attempted 
 the life of Col. Roosevelt some time ago. These are the 
 individuals we are welcoming to our shores, as Roman 
 Catholic nations exile them. 
 
 By their intrigue, murder and treason, two score of 
 governments have discovered their aim and expelled them 
 sixty-two times. Hundreds of these Jesuits are now in 
 America, working their trade in multitudes of ways. Our 
 national capitol is honeycombed with them, pussy-footing 
 hither and thither, and every mother’s son of them armed 
 with full absolution direct from the Vatican, so that any 
 crime he may commit is forgiven even before it is com¬ 
 mitted. 
 
 We have intimated that the Papal Hierarchy had inten¬ 
 tions upon our Republic. It is the Jesuit who is selected to 
 inject the poison that is to destroy the vitals of the gov¬ 
 ernment and cause its decay. Three times in the sixteenth 
 century and twice in the seventeenth, England discovered 
 the treachery of the Papacy and banished them from that 
 country. My point is: Is it worth while to take cognizance 
 of his presence in America? 
 
 We know his past history, and no such history of crime. 
 
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 vileness, treason and intrigue blackens the pages of past 
 ages. Kings, Emperors, Presidents, Popes and Princes 
 are numbered in the list of their victims. 
 
 Do we act wisely in permitting him to carry on his devil¬ 
 ish purposes in our land? He is in our Department of 
 State; he is, no doubt, in our Protestant pulpits, just as he 
 was in the English Protestant pulpits in the sixteenth and 
 seventeenth centuries. He is in our great commercial 
 houses; he is in our district and supreme courts; he is in our 
 army and our navy; he is in the innermost secret chambers 
 of the government of the United States. He is in position 
 to collect that secret data that finally overthrew the govern¬ 
 ments of Europe in past centuries. Again the question, 
 Do we want him in America? 
 
 In one of our former publications we used the following, 
 which sums up the subject in a nutshell: 
 
 “The Jesuit has been driven out of every country where 
 he has plied his trade of treason and intrigue, as the fol¬ 
 lowing will show: Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Aus¬ 
 tria, Switzerland, Belgium, Russia, China, Japan, Mexico, 
 several South American countries, England, Ireland, India, 
 and Malta. 
 
 “Those to whom this bit of history may be new will 
 naturally ask why these holy men of God (?) have been so 
 often expelled from these countries. Our first inclination 
 is to answer the question by asking another question: Why 
 were the fallen angels banished from heaven? In neither 
 case was it because of their loyalty, honor, integrity, godli¬ 
 ness. In both cases the reason was the same, and yet they 
 did no more there to cause their banishment than they are 
 doing today in America and are lauded by our newspapers 
 Tor it. This leads us to remark that there has not been a 
 
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 single country under the sun where the Jesuit has been 
 unmolested for any considerable time, but his iniquitous, 
 treasonable deeds did not overtake him and make it neces¬ 
 sary to drive him into exile. It is easy to demonstrate by 
 history that the unrest, discord, and wars for a thousand 
 years have been largely at the instigation of the Jesuits. 
 The fifty millions of innocent people murdered in cold blood 
 by the Papacy is a lasting monument to the intrigue and 
 duplicity of the “Society of Jesus.” The assassination of 
 presidents and rulers is easily traceable to this body of holy 
 men of God and who received full instructions in advance 
 from the Vatican. 
 
 “When the Papal Hierarchy sets about to worm itself 
 into a nation, the Jesuit is always the instrument by which 
 this end is accomplished. When papal greed discovers some 
 female who has inherited a large fortune, it is the Jesuit 
 who is sent to lay the trap and bag the game for the 
 Hierarchy.” 
 
 Lest the reader think we have set the picture of the in¬ 
 famous Jesuit in too dark a setting, we will give a bit of the 
 theology under which he works. Let us remind you, this 
 theology has been accepted by the infallible popes and is 
 therefore absolutely true and in force this very day. When 
 you see a smooth Jesuit person, meekly walking along the 
 street in a sanctimonious style, seemingly so innocent that 
 he is watching his footsteps that he may not so much as 
 step upon and crush out the life of the most insignificant 
 insect, just refer to this moral theology and you can get 
 your man according to his true measure. 
 
 We promise you in advance, it is going to tax your 
 imagination to believe that the Jesuit’s theology we are 
 to present to you can be true. Indeed, as one reads it in 
 
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 authorities that even no Romanist can deny, we then find 
 ourselves wondering if it can be possible that such infamous 
 doctrine was intended for human beings to accept. Please 
 pardon us for calling your attention to another important 
 point. These same Jesuits, these parasites who have been 
 sixty-two times exiled from various countries, and most 
 frequently from Papal countries by Roman Catholics them¬ 
 selves, these traitors who hesitate at no crime under high 
 heaven, these scavengers trained to all the craftiness of the 
 nether world, these disturbers in the political and commer¬ 
 cial life of nations, are also the educators of the Papal 
 System, and because of their frequent banishment from 
 other countries are flocking to the United States and seeking 
 to disrupt and break down our public school system. 
 
 Thou art the man, O Jesuit, who, by your craftiness, 
 would bury our public schools and inaugurate the Papal 
 catechism to debauch, deceive, denude, dethrone and destroy 
 the intellectual development of our grand youth and reduce 
 them to that state of ignorance and superstition that char¬ 
 acterizes Papal countries. 
 
 's. 
 
 Thou art condemned out of thine own mouth, as the 
 following extracts from thy theology plainly show. This is 
 but the more moderate part of Jesuit theology. Much of 
 it is too obscene and blasphemous even to write. The Hon. 
 Thomas Watson and Miss Annie Lawry have been arrested 
 for even quoting it. Just think for a moment of a system 
 setting itself up as the only and exclusive purveyor of sal¬ 
 vation to mankind, and its teaching so infamously obscene 
 and corrupt that the laws of the land forbid its theology 
 being carried through the mails, and those who even quote it 
 in Latin are subject to arrest for using obscene language. 
 
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 The following is a sample of Jesuit theology to which we 
 now invite attention: 
 
 Theft. 
 
 Tamburin, in his explication of the Decalogue, Book 8, 
 Tract 2, Chapter 2, page 205, asserts: “A man is not bound 
 to restore what he has stolen in small sums, whatever may 
 be the total amount.” 
 
 Cardenas in his Crisis Theolog, Diss. 23, Chapter 2, 
 Article 1, maintains: “Domestics who secretly steal from 
 their masters, being rationally persuaded that it is no injus¬ 
 tice for them because their labor is worth more wages than 
 they receive, commit no crime.” That dogma is also ratified 
 by Taberna. 
 
 “Escabar in his Theolog Moral, Vol. 4, Lib. 34, Sub. 2, 
 Prob. 16, teaches that ‘A child who serves his father may 
 secretly purloin as much as his father would have paid a 
 stranger for his work/ ” 
 
 In his Universal Theology, Book 5, Ques. 3, Chapter 4, 
 Gordonus decides: “A woman may take the property of 
 her husband for gambling, or any other extravagance, and 
 to supply her spiritual wants, that she may act like other 
 women!’ In other words, she is directed to steal from her 
 family to glut her profligate priestly confessor. 
 
 “Vasquez, and Castro Palao, Tract 6, and Escabar, 
 Tract 5, Exam. 5, thus determine: When a man sees a 
 thief resolved and ready to rob a poor person, to hinder 
 him he may point out some rich man whom he would rob 
 in his stead/ ” Text Book of Popery, pp. 366-367. 
 
 In his Cursus Theologica, Dis. p. 38, Section 4, Fran¬ 
 cis Amicus says: “He who has stolen to a considerable 
 amount is not obliged under pain of mortal sin to restore 
 the whole.” 
 
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 On the same subject Thomas Tamburin has this to say: 
 “That a number of small thefts may constitute a mortal sin, 
 it is necessary they should be committed continuously . If 
 four years elapse between the commission of one theft and 
 another, it is accounted by Rebel to be a considerable in¬ 
 terval. One year by Sanchez, six months by some, and 
 fifteen days by others.” Explicatio Decalogi, Lib. 8, Tr. 2, 
 C. 3. 
 
 Stephen Banny is a bit more charitable with Papists, as 
 he proclaims: “These trifling thefts, committed on differ¬ 
 ent days, and at different opportunities, against one man 
 or against many, however great may he the amount which 
 has been stolen, will never become mortal sins.”—Des Lar- 
 cius. Chapter 10. 
 
 “It is not a mortal sin to take secretly . And it is not 
 necessary to restore.”—Emmanuel Sa Apporismi Confessa- 
 viorum. 
 
 “Servants are excused both from sin and restitution if 
 they only take in equitable compensation.” Valerius Reg¬ 
 inald, Praxis Fori, Lib. 25, C. 44. 
 
 Murder. 
 
 “A priest,” says Henriquez, “who commits adultery 
 with a woman is not criminal, if he kills her husband who 
 assails him.” Sum of Moral Theology, Vol. 1 , Book 14 , 
 Chapt. 10. 
 
 Airault, page 319, thus teaches: “If a person attempts 
 to ruin my reputation by calumny, and I can evade the in¬ 
 jury by directly killing him, may 1 do it? Certainly, you 
 may fitly kill him, not publicly, but secretly, to evade 
 scandal.” 
 
 Guimenius, in his seventh proposition, affirmed: “You 
 
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 may charge your opponent with false crimes to take away 
 his credit, as well as kill him.” 
 
 “It is lawful to kill any man to save a crown.”—Malina, 
 Vol. 3, Disput, 16. 
 
 “It is not a sin for parents to wish the death of their 
 children, or to desire the death of any one who troubles the 
 Roman Church.”—Fegeli Practical Questions, Part 4, Chapt. 
 
 1, Quest. 7, Num. 8. 
 
 Dicastillo, Book 2, Tract 1, Num. 15, says: “If a man 
 becomes a nuisance to society, the son may lawfully kill his 
 father.” 
 
 4 _ 
 
 Busenbaum and La Croix, Moral Theology, Vol. 1, 
 Page 295, proclaim: “In all cases where any man has a 
 right to kill a person, if affection moves, another man may 
 do it for him.” 
 
 Gabot in his Moral Works, Vol. 2, Part 2, Tract 5, 
 Cap. 9, Sec. 8, declares: <( A son who inherits great wealth 
 by the death of his father may rejoice that, when he was in¬ 
 toxicated, he murdered his father.” —Text Book of Popery, 
 P. 369. 
 
 “If an adulterous priest, even aware of his danger, hav- 
 /ng visited an adultress, is assailed by her husband, and kills 
 the man in his own defense, it is not criminal.”—Henriquez, 
 Sum of Moral Theology, Vol. 1, Book 14, Chapt. 10, Page 
 869. 
 
 Stephen Fagundez tells us: “If a judge had been un¬ 
 just, and had proceeded (in trial) without adhering to the 
 course of the law, then certainly the accused might defend 
 himself, by assaulting and even killing the judge.” —Tom. 
 
 2, Lib. 8, Chapt. 32. 
 
 Perjury—Lying—False Witness. 
 
 “He who may conceal goods, which he requires for the 
 
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 sustenance of life, lest they should be seized by his cred¬ 
 itors and himself reduced to beggary, may swear, when he 
 is examined by the judge, that he has no concealed goods. 
 And they who are privy to it may swear the same thing.”— 
 Thomas Sanchez, in Precept Decal., Part 2, Book 3. 
 
 “When a man who has truly or feignedly promised mar¬ 
 riage, is, for some reason, free from the obligation of ful¬ 
 filling his promise, he may swear, when required, that he 
 did not promise understanding. . . Because, by adopting 
 
 a probable opinion, he may think he is not bound with a 
 safe conscience.”—In Precept Decal., Part 2, Book 3. 
 
 “The witness and the accused are not obliged to answer 
 according to the meaning of the judge.”—Leonard Lessius 
 De Justice et Jure, Book 2. 
 
 Vincent Fillincius asks the question: “With what pre¬ 
 caution is equivocation to be used?” And he answers: 
 “When we begin, for instance, to say, ‘I swear,’ we must 
 insert in a subdued tone the mental restriction, ‘that today,’ 
 and then continue aloud, ‘that I have not eaten such a 
 thing,’ or ‘I swear,’ then insert, ‘I say,’ then conclude in 
 the same loud voice, ‘that I have not done this or that thing,’ 
 for thus the whole speech is very true.”—Moralium Ques- 
 tionum. 
 
 John Baptist Taberna, in his Synopsis Theologiae Prac¬ 
 tice, at Question 5, asks, “Is a judge bound to restore the 
 bribe which he has received for passing sentence?” The 
 answer is, “If he has received the bribe for passing an un¬ 
 just sentence, it is probable he may keep it. . . . This 
 opinion is maintained and defended by fifty-eight doctors.” 
 —Pope or President, pp. 208-209. 
 
 Rosenbaum and La Croix, in Theologia Moralis, Art. 
 4, Ques. 268, ask the same question: “Is a judge bound 
 
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 to restore the bribe which he has received for passing judg¬ 
 ment?” Answer; “If he has received it for a just sentence, 
 he is bound to restore it, because it was otherwise due to the 
 pleader, and he has therefore received no benefit for his 
 money. If the judge has received it for an unjust sentence, 
 he is not to make restitution, as Bannez, Sanchez, etc., teach. 
 Now the exposure to such danger in the service of another 
 may be valued at a price.” Book 4, Art. 4, Quest. 268. 
 
 Molina, no less eminent a theologian than Escabar, says; 
 “Judges may receive presents from the parties in a suit, if 
 they make them from friendship or gratitude for the justice 
 which has been done them, or to oblige them to do it for the 
 future, or to engage them to take particular care and dis¬ 
 patch their business.”—Tract. 2, Disput. 88. 
 
 Escabar teaches that “a judge may lawfully take a sum 
 of money to give sentence for which party he pleases, when 
 both have equal right.” He further says: “If a judge re¬ 
 ceives a bribe to pass a just sentence, he is bound to re¬ 
 store it, because he is bound to do justice without a bribe; 
 but if the judge be bribed to pass an unjust sentence, he is 
 not obliged in conscience to make any restitution.”—Moral 
 Theology, Vol. 1, Book 2, Sec. 2, Chapt. 6, Quoted in Text- 
 Book of Popery, p. 366. 
 
 Fraud in Business. 
 
 “It is lawful,” says Escabar, “for a man to use false 
 weights; and if he be charged with it, he may deny it by 
 oath, making use of equivocal expressions, when he is in¬ 
 terrogated before a judge.” This same great Romish Theo¬ 
 logian further teaches on the subject in these words: “May 
 he who turns bankrupt, with a safe conscience, retain as 
 much as is requisite to maintain himself handsomely, or that 
 he may not live meanly? With Lessius, I affirm that he 
 
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 may.”—Moral Theology, Tract 1, Ex. 3, Cap. 7, Quoted in 
 Text-Book of Popery, p. 366. 
 
 The Nun in America. 
 
 The Papal Hierarchy is the most stupenduous organiza¬ 
 tion the world has ever seen. From the Vatican in every 
 direction the multitudinous tentacles reach out to gather 
 in the shekels. Prince and pauper, ruler and roustabout, 
 savant and servant girl, philosopher and peasant, are reached 
 by some finger of this System. Thousands of these poor 
 dupes give it their labor for a lifetime absolutely free. 
 Multitudes give themselves, their fortunes, their woman¬ 
 hood, their bodies as a living sacrifice—that ducats and dol¬ 
 lars may drop into the treasury box, making it possible for 
 armies of stallfed men to revel in questionable luxury. This 
 arm of the work is performed by the nuns, numbering some 
 seventy thousand in the United States, and others coming 
 to our shores as the nunneries are closed by European Gov¬ 
 ernments, who seem to take it for granted that they have 
 had their share of the holy effects of Papal nunneries, and 
 in their benevolent moments invite them, to decamp. The 
 number of seventy thousand nuns in our country does not 
 include the thousands of young women who are compelled 
 to labor in these institutions that the overworked cardinals, 
 bishops and priests may have where to lay their fat bodies 
 in easy contentment. 
 
 With this army of women begging and laboring for the 
 Papal machine, what will be the outcome? This is no small 
 question. The reader of these lines must help decide it. 
 
 Following close in its wake comes another question: 
 Do you knozv of one iota of good for God, Home and 
 Country, a nunnery ever accomplished? Take your time 
 to consider the question. Give it the full benefit of all 
 
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 doubt, but honor bright, did you ever know any good in the 
 progress of civilization to come from a convent? 
 
 They stand behind great walls, their windows are 
 barred as state prisons, innocent girls are duped into enter¬ 
 ing them to be buried to the world during their natural 
 lives. These thousands of buried lives, withered woman¬ 
 hood, stifled intellects, disfigured personalities, remain in 
 these prisons during their natural life. The question we are 
 leading up to is this: Can you point to one iota of good 
 either for God or humanity these nuns dof You may claim 
 they teach the orphans, you may say they care for the un¬ 
 fortunate, but your defense of the System is not satis¬ 
 factory, since we have schools by the thousand where knowl¬ 
 edge is imparted. We have in profusion places to care for 
 the helpless and at public expense. Can you in any possible 
 way see any benefit to humanity, aside from the priest¬ 
 craft, emanating from these conventsf The nearest we 
 have yet seen of the good they do was only a few days ago, 
 when we saw two nuns carry a large can of swill from a res¬ 
 taurant in one of our large cities and take it to the home of 
 “The Little Sisters of the Poor” to feed the orphans. This 
 same institution, while it feeds the inmates on the refuse 
 from hotels and restaurants, keeps a company of nuns beg¬ 
 ging Protestants for money to support this institution. 
 Where does the cash go? 
 
 You have watched this process and know its workings. 
 Did you ever ask yourself the question as to whether these 
 so-called nun houses were not mere blinds to get cash from 
 Protestants to fill the insatiable maw of the Hierarchy? It 
 becomes a pertinent question these latter days. 
 
 Seventy thousand nuns in America; seventy thousand 
 women supposedly devoting their lives to uplifting human- 
 
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 ity; three score and ten thousand devotees to the only man¬ 
 saving system under heaven. Can you recall any real en¬ 
 during benefit they have been during the past twelve hun¬ 
 dred years? 
 
 Rome is in America with all its regalia and parapher¬ 
 nalia, even to the Inquisition. While you sleep, all parts 
 of this gigantic political machine are in motion. We would 
 not have you forget the question. 
 
 Does the Hierarchy seek to make America Catholic? 
 
 We pray you in the name of God, Home and Country, 
 for the sake of the innocent posterity yet to be born, in 
 the sacred cause for which our forefathers offered up their 
 lives as a living sacrifice to give this question a candid 
 hearing. 
 
CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 POPERY AND IMMIGRATION. 
 
 It was but a few months ago that the Congress of the 
 United States was engrossed with a measure aimed to re¬ 
 strict immigration to our country. Mr. Taft paid his last 
 debt to Popery by vetoing this measure, and because of his 
 unjust action, no little excitement was manifested at the 
 National capitol. The rustle of priestly petticoats and the 
 jostle of the Jesuits were much in evidence. The sacred 
 sanctums of the crafty Cardinals were busy places for the 
 time. Prelates and priests pranced and promenaded the 
 capitol thoroughfares, while the laity lobbied to prevent 
 the Senate passing the bill over the chief executive's veto. 
 
 Why Does the Hierarchy Oppose a Restricted 
 
 Immigration. 
 
 Couple, if you please, this question we propounded in the 
 preceding chapter, Do Papists aspire to make America 
 Roman Catholic? and you may be assisted to your answer. 
 Deep down you will find a close connection between these 
 two questions. Indeed they are alarmingly closely related. 
 Even the logician would experience some difficulty in de¬ 
 fining where one stops and the other begins. But to re¬ 
 turn to our subject, let us inquire more closely into the op¬ 
 position of Popery to the immigration bill in question. Bear 
 in mind, this bill was not particularly aimed at checking im¬ 
 migration to our country, but it aimed to restrict the quality 
 of immigrants. In other words, it has no reference to quan¬ 
 tity, but to quality. 
 
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 Alas! here is where it rubbed hard against Popery, which 
 is not particularly restrictive when intelligence and other 
 marks of civilization are the test. The thousands coming 
 to our shores are largely made up of people from Southern 
 Europe and, of course, Papists, which fact may have some 
 bearing on the subject. Italy, Portugal, Spain and France 
 are no longer conducive to Popery and, with a wide open 
 door in America, it became, because of certain reasons, a 
 good investment for the Vatican to spend a portion of its 
 vast annual income in fortifying its ground in America. 
 
 These immigrants can be made useful in our country. 
 They help to swell the number of Papists with which the 
 System can frighten the political parties into profitable con¬ 
 cessions, and after a short time they can vote and help elect 
 Papists to office, and Papists in office help the Hierarchy to 
 get more power, and more power helps get nearer the public 
 treasury, and the public treasury helps to get more securely 
 entrenched, and entrenchment means further concession 
 from politicians, and more obliging politicians mean more 
 power. 
 
 Remember, Papal power is gone in Europe, Asia and 
 Africa. It is now too late for the immigrants to be of 
 any particular help politically on those continents. Is it an 
 idle question then to ask, why not concentrate the forces of 
 the Papacy in America and build up one great grand 
 Hierarchy rather than be content to hold a more uncertain 
 place in half a dozen doubtful dynasties, any one of which 
 is very likely to slip away at any moment? There was a 
 time when it was said, “All roads lead to Rome.” This no 
 longer holds good. Far more correctly can we say that 
 honor now belongs to America. This being true, we may 
 easily expect- that along these roads will travel much that 
 
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 is not conducive to the higher civilization, hence the pur¬ 
 pose of our Congress in guarding those highways and to 
 its praise be ascribed the late immigration bill. 
 
 From what we have said it will be seen that the Papal 
 System opposes our immigration bill because of the educa¬ 
 tion restrictions. 
 
 Why? 
 
 What is the reason for the Papal dignitaries’ fierce de¬ 
 nunciation of a restricted immigration? Every religious 
 sect in America, unless it be the Mormons, favors such a 
 bill. They are not slow in seeing the benefits it would be¬ 
 stow upon us. The labor organizations heartily supported 
 the measure as a safeguard to the hosts of wage-earners. 
 
 Why Then Do Pabists Object To It? 
 
 It is a profoundly serious question, a question every 
 honest American citizen should carefully investigate, a ques¬ 
 tion that needs close attention, a question leading us directly 
 to that great'question, 
 
 Are Papists Attempting To Make America Papal? 
 
 1. Such a calamity could not and will never befall us 
 unless the immigration from Southern Europe swell the 
 Papal ranks until it holds the balance of power. It at this 
 moment is fast gaining from this source. Hundreds of 
 thousands annually are coming to our shores. Very largely 
 they can neither read nor write, though they have had 
 twelve hundred years of the beneficent instruction of the 
 parochial school. But if they are illiterate, they can vote, 
 and with them Cardinal Gibbons can hoodwink political 
 parties and further his schemes. 25 
 
 25. The 1910 Census Bulletin says: “For the ten years between 
 the taking of the censuses of 1900 and 1910 the total immigration 
 was about 8,500,000. Of this total, about 6,100,000, or 72 per cent. 
 
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 2. We have said the Papal Hierarchy is a political 
 machine, that it is intensely in politics; is there any con¬ 
 nection then between this charge and papal opposition to re¬ 
 stricting immigration? This is just now a profoundly sig¬ 
 nificant question for American citizens to ponder. We have 
 shown that both are facts and shall leave it to the honor and 
 patriotism of true Americans to suggest the remedy. Shall 
 we let the subject rest where the Princes of the blood slew 
 it, or shall we set about to rescue the corpse and inject new 
 life into the sleeping carcass? Every American citizen 
 should insist on his Congressman taking up the measure 
 now before Congress, and lend his aid in having it de¬ 
 veloped into a law. 
 
 No one questions the need of such a measure which all 
 concede will jar loose the chief props of Popery in America. 
 “As a man soweth, so shall he reap!' 
 
 were from southern and eastern Europe, and about 1,800,000, or 20 
 per cent, from Northwestern Europe. Study these statistics a 
 moment and see if there be a need of laws restricting immigration. 
 Scandinavia and Germany, the source of our desirable immigration, 
 has largely fallen off, and the increase has come from such coun¬ 
 tries as Italy, Austria, Mexico, Spain, Portugal and Hungary. 
 
 In no part of the globe is there a more mongrelized people than 
 most of these immigrants. If they possessed redeeming qualities 
 otherwise, it will take a thousand years to absorb them in our 
 American race. Yet they can vote, and the prelates of the Roman 
 Catholic Church can manipulate politics, with votes. . Again we ask 
 the question, Do we need a law restraining immigration? 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
 
 CAN A PAPIST BE AN AMERICAN CITIZEN? 
 
 No Man Can Serve Two Masters. 
 
 This is a question now going the rounds and, while we 
 are not questioning the honor or patriotism of the individual 
 Roman Catholic laity, we do know that there is occasion for 
 the question. If the writer were to swear allegiance to 
 King George of England, he could hardly be classed as an 
 American citizen, though he may continue to reside in this 
 country indefinitely. 
 
 We will show that Papists, especially priests, and all 
 others bearing an official title are sworn to allegiance first 
 to the Pope and then to his government. CAN HE THEN 
 BE A CITIZEN OF OUR COUNTRY? Would Canada 
 
 i 
 
 recognize you as a citizen if you located in that country 
 and presented your naturalization papers modified to the 
 extent of saying that you would swear allegiance first to 
 the United States, and then to Canada? Just think of the 
 proposition for a moment. The Pope of Rome demands the 
 allegiance of Papists first to himself, then to the govern¬ 
 ment. Now, can a Papist be a citizen of the United States 
 in the sense you and I are citizens? You say that you know 
 Papists who are just as loyal as we are. You point out ex¬ 
 amples where Papists have illustrated their patriotism in a 
 most effective manner. We will agree with you in the main, 
 but remember this loyalty may have been such as the Pope 
 did not object to. 
 
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 The following statistics were published in the Sun, the 
 New York City Roman Catholic daily, on August 30, 1891/ 
 and also in the Boston Globe, Sept. 27, 1891. In order to 
 refute the claim, Papists made a search in the Pension De¬ 
 partment and, of course, the claim was untrue until Mr. R. 
 J. Long of the American Citizen pointed them to the War 
 Department, since which time no denial has been made. 
 Here is the comparison as printed in the paper named : 26 
 
 Enlistments 1861-1865. 
 
 Native Americans 
 
 Germans . 
 
 Irish . 
 
 British Americans 
 
 English ... 
 
 Other foreigners. 
 
 
 Per Cent. 
 
 1,523,000 
 
 75.48 
 
 177,800 
 
 8.76 
 
 144,200 
 
 7.14 
 
 53,500 
 
 2.60 
 
 45,500 
 
 2.26 
 
 74,800 
 
 3.76 
 
 2,018,800 
 
 Desertions. 
 
 Per Cent. 
 
 Irish . 72 
 
 Germans . 16 
 
 Americans . 5 
 
 All others.. 7 
 
 A very interesting bit of history concerning the Pope’s 
 army standing hitched in time of war is found in William 
 Jay’s Review of the Mexican War, page 208. Speaking of 
 the Irish regiment forming a part of the American army, 
 he says: “On reaching Mexico, they discovered that they 
 had been hired by heretics to slaughter brethren of their 
 
 26. Parochial School Fallacies, p. 94. 
 
AMERICA’S MENACE 
 
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 own church. The Mexicans, moreover, published appeals 
 addressed directly to their consciences, in which was set 
 forth, in strong language, the sin they were committing in 
 fighting against men who had never injured them, and who 
 were united with them in a common faith.” Some fifty of 
 these deserters were taken in battle and on the 22nd of 
 September, 1847, these unfortunate parochial school grad¬ 
 uates were hanged as traitors, as the American flag was 
 raised upon the battlements of Chepultepec. 
 
 The great question is, Would the class of Papists who 
 would enlist in our war stand by the guns if the Pope said 
 otherwise? 
 
 Facts show the hand of the Pope meddling in the confed¬ 
 eracy, hence the great number of desertions from the north¬ 
 ern ranks. They did not desert because they did not love the 
 country, but because the Pope commanded them to. They 
 are not to be censured. It was supposed a matter of the 
 eternal damnation of their immortal souls to do otherwise. 
 
 It 
 
 Another question presents itself in this connection. Our 
 army and navy, especially the latter, is largely dominated 
 by Papists. Would they stand hitched if the order from 
 the Pope came to them during a war such as we might be¬ 
 come engaged in? Of course, you assume they would, but 
 they did not in our civil war and your mere assumption 
 would not make it so in future wars. The question is too 
 serious to leave it rest on mere assumption. It is far more 
 sane to “in time of peace prepare for war.” 
 
 The question under consideration is an important one. 
 The reader is requested to first study the grip Popery has 
 on its subjects before he attempts to form his final conclu¬ 
 sions. Such a thing is so foreign to the most of us we 
 cannot conceive the possibility of an innate fear so strong 
 
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 as to overshadow everything else under the sun, but, be¬ 
 loved, such a fear exists right here in America in this twen¬ 
 tieth century. Popery has so • completely uncovered tHat 
 unmentionable abyss and so forcefully advertised its power 
 to consign or rescue immortal souls from its inscrutable 
 torments that loyalty to governments is indeed of secondary 
 consideration. Let us tarry right here to remark that this 
 is the very center and circumference of our quarrel with 
 Popery—any system holding the minds of human beings in 
 such a grip is too supremely damnable to be allowed to exist 
 even in the heart of America. What we have said is most 
 significant in trying to decide the question as to whether a 
 true Papist can be an American citizen. In forming your 
 conclusion, you cannot escape its bearing on the subject. 
 
 The remark is oftentimes made that the Papal Hierarchy 
 exercises such wonderful power over its subjects. Verily 
 this is true. Just as Hindooism, Mohammedannism, Mor- 
 monism, and Brahminism hold their subject in their power. 
 Why? Simply the people are taught from infancy that the 
 priestcraft possesses more than human powers, just like the 
 ancient pagan priests held that it holds in its hands the keys 
 to heaven and eternal damnation in hell. This is the true 
 secret of this abject subservience and easily explains why 
 Papists owe allegiance to the Pope at Rome. This is why 
 the priestcraft is so universally feared by the Papal laity. 
 This is why the question has been raised. No man can 
 serve two masters. No man can be a true American citi¬ 
 zen while he is conscious of owing the Pope at Rome his 
 first and best allegiance. i 
 
 As to priest and prelate who take those ironclad oaths, 
 no country should grant them citizenship, and if Americans 
 today fully understood those oaths not one of them would 
 
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 be permitted to exercise that franchise. Not one of them 
 would hesitate one moment to make choice between country 
 and Pope if the test came. If he did, he would violate one 
 of the most binding oaths in existence. 
 
 The question arises, do not Papists vote for good meas¬ 
 ures the same as Americans? To be sure they do, but this 
 is no test whatsoever. Give the Papacy the power and then 
 see how they would vote. Until that is done such argument 
 has no bearing on our subject. The test alone can decide 
 the question. We have had but two such tests so far, as 
 we have already stated. What we are now interested in 
 is, if the Pope took sides with an opposing power, would 
 Papists stand true to our flag? This is at this moment not 
 an idle question in any sense. Indeed, it is a profoundly 
 significant question for Americans to consider, as the fol¬ 
 lowing plainly indicates: 
 
 We take this extract from a sermon preached in St. 
 Louis, June 30, 1912, by priest D. S. Phelan, editor of the 
 well-known Romanist church paper, The Western Watch¬ 
 man, of that city. Priest Phelan said: 
 
 “And why is it that the church is strong; why is it every¬ 
 body is afraid of the Catholic Church? And the American 
 people are more afraid of her than any people of the world. 
 Why are they afraid of the Catholic Church? They know 
 what the Catholic Church means. It means all the Catholics 
 of the world; not of one country, or two countries, but all 
 the countries of the world. 
 
 “And it means more than that; it means that the Cath¬ 
 olics of the world love the church more than anything else, 
 that the Catholics of the world love the church more than 
 they do their own governments, more than they do their oven 
 nation, more than they do their own people, more than they 
 
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 do their own fortunes, more than they do their own selves, 
 
 “We of the Catholic Church are ready to go to the death 
 for the church. Under God, she is the supreme subject of 
 our worship. Tell us we think more of the church than we 
 do of the United States; of course we do. Tell us we are 
 Catholics first and Americans or Englishmen afterward; of 
 course we are. 
 
 “Tell us, in the conflict between the church and the civil 
 government we take the side of the church; of course we do. 
 Why, if the government of the United States were at war 
 with the church we would say tomorrow, to hell with the 
 government of the United States; and if the church and all 
 the governments of the world were at war we would say, 
 to hell with all the governments of the world. 
 
 “They say we are Catholics first and Americans decid¬ 
 edly afterward. There is no doubt about it. We are Cath¬ 
 olics first and we love the church more than we love any 
 and all the governments of the world. 
 
 “Let the governments of the world steer clear of the 
 Catholic church; let the emperors, let the kings, and the 
 presidents not come into conflict with the head of the Cath¬ 
 olic Church. Because the Catholic Church is everything to 
 all the Catholics of the world; they renounce all nationalities 
 where there is a question of loyalty to her. And why is it 
 that hope is so strong? Why is it that in this country, 
 where we have only seven per cent of the population, the 
 Catholic Church is so much feared? She is loved by all 
 her children and feared by everybody. 
 
 “Why is it the Pope is such a tremendous power? Why, 
 the Pope is the ruler of the world. All the emperors, all 
 the kings, all the princes, all the presidents of the world 
 today are as these altar boys of mine. The Pope is the ruler 
 
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 of the world. Why? Because he is the ruler of the Cath¬ 
 olics of the world, the Catholics of all the world; and the 
 Catholics of all the world would die for the rights of the 
 Pope. He is the head of the church, and they would die 
 for the church. 
 
 “And the church is the church of Jesus Christ, and they 
 need not have any misgivings on that score; there need be 
 no misconceptions there—the Catholics of the world are 
 Catholics first and always; they are Americans, they are 
 Germans, they are French, or they are English afterward.” 
 
 This priest is reputed to voice the sentiments of the 
 Vatican and high dignitaries of the Papacy as few others 
 of his rank in America dare do. There is no evidence thus 
 far that his treasonable utterances have been even criticised 
 by Papists, even by the Papal censored newspapers of our 
 country. Were a Methodist pastor to use such words, every 
 newspaper in the land would take up the refrain and cry 
 treason, until they became too hoarse to make a noise. 
 
 Beloved American, we ask can you call such* a treason¬ 
 able priest a desirable citizen of these United States? 
 
 The Catholic World, evidently voicing the sentiment of 
 
 some one higher up, says: “We hold that if the government 
 is sustained it must reject the principles of the reformation, 
 and accept the Catholic principle, which is the government 
 from the Pope: That the Pope issues the orders to which 
 every Catholic must yield obedience 
 
 Is it worth while for Americans to sit up and take notice 
 when hundreds of thousands of illiterate superstitious Pap¬ 
 ists are landed on our shores and are being exclusively 
 herded by some priest whose oath of obedience to an igno¬ 
 rant Italian Pope we here give: 
 
 “I,.., now in the presence of Almighty 
 
 God, the blessed Virgin Mary, the blessed Michael the Arch- 
 
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 angel, the blessed St. John the Baptist, the Holy Apostles 
 St. Peter and St. Paul [and Minneapolis], and the Saints 
 and the Sacred Hosts of Heaven, and to you my Lord, I do 
 declare from my heart, without mental reservation, that the 
 Pope is Christ’s vicar-general and is the true and only head 
 of the Universal Church throughout the earth, and that, by 
 virtue of the keys of binding and loosing given to His Holi¬ 
 ness by Jesus Christ, he has power to depose heretical kings, 
 princes, states, commonwealths and governments, all being 
 illegal without sacred confirmation, and that they may 
 safely be destroyed. Therefore, to the utmost of my power, 
 I will defend the doctrine and His Holiness’ rights and cus¬ 
 toms against all usurpers of the Protestant authority what¬ 
 soever, especially against the now pretending authority and 
 church in England and all adherents in regard that they 
 be usurpal and heretical, opposing the Sacred Mother, the 
 Church of Rome. 
 
 “I do now denounce and disown any allegiance as due to 
 any Protestant king, prince or state, or obedience to any of 
 their inferior officers. I do further declare the doctrine of 
 the Church of England, of the Calvinists, Huguenots and 
 other Protestants to be damned who will not forsake the 
 same . - ^ 
 
 I do further declare that I will help, assist and advise all 
 or any of His Holiness ’ agents in any place wherever I shall 
 be, and do my utmost to extirpate the Protestant doctrine, 
 and to destroy all their pretended power, legal or otherwise. 
 I do further promise and declare that, notwithstanding I 
 may be permitted by dispensation to assume any heretical 
 religion (Protestant denominations) for the propagation 
 of the Mother Church’s interest, to keep secret and private 
 all her agents’ counsels as they entrust me, and not to di- 
 
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 vulge, directly or indirectly, by word, writing or circum¬ 
 stances whatsoever, but to execute all which shall be pro¬ 
 posed, given in charge, or discovered unto me by you, my 
 most Reverend Lord and Bishop. 
 
 “All of which I,.. do swear by the 
 
 blessed Trinity and Sacrament, which I am about to receive 
 to perform on my part, to keep inviolable, and do call on all 
 the Heavenly and Glorious Hosts of Heaven to witness my 
 real intentions to keep this my OATH. 
 
 “In testimony whereof, I take this most holy and blessed 
 Sacrament of the Eucharist, and witness the same further 
 with my consecrated hand, in the presence of my holy 
 bishop and all the priests who assist him in my ordination to 
 priesthood.” 
 
 Can anyone who would subscribe to this oath be an 
 American citizen? Can such a one be trusted in any coun¬ 
 try to lead the people in any capacity ? Are they worthy of 
 the confidence of civilized people in any age? These scav¬ 
 engers of the Papal System are circulating among our citi¬ 
 zens as men of God bent on the uplift preservation of the 
 rights of mankind. In every country when they have 
 gained power, both the government and the people have 
 suffered from and sorely lamented their existence. 
 
 Again, beloved American, we ask you if you can call a 
 Papal priest a citizen of the United States? 
 
 Verily America hath a Menace. 
 
 More About Papal Oaths. 
 
 We well know that priests will deny the oath we have 
 quoted. Archbishop Purcell, in his debate with Dr. Alex¬ 
 ander Campbell at Cincinnati, denied it until Dr. Campbell 
 proved he did take this oath. He then, in defense of his 
 position, said he thought he was debating with a gentle- 
 
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 man and wept a lot of crocodile tears. But tears won’t 
 drown truth. All the prelates, priests and puppets cannot 
 deny that the priests take an oath and that this oath is swear¬ 
 ing first allegiance to the Pope of Rome and if any residue 
 of loyalty and allegiance be left, it flows to the Constitution 
 of the United States of America. 
 
 Papal theology teaches: 
 
 1. That witnesses in civil courts are justified in swear¬ 
 ing falsely if thereby they help or defend the interests of 
 the church. 
 
 2. That an oath of allegiance to a nation or ruler is 
 not binding if the church disapproves of it. 
 
 3. That no obligation or oath of any description is bind¬ 
 ing except the church approves of it. 
 
 4. That Papal oaths or obligations may be secretly con¬ 
 formed to environment, if thereby the church is preserved 
 from harm. 
 
 These statements are confirmed in the testimony given 
 below, the first being from Rev. Joseph Connellan of The 
 Catholic, Dublin, Ireland: 
 
 “In the London Daily News, October 20, we have an 
 interesting correspondence on the Roman Catholic bishop’s 
 oath. The present Roman Catholic Archbishop of West¬ 
 minster was asked by the Daily News whether the oath still 
 contained a promise to ‘persecute and assail all heretics, etc.’ 
 Here is the reply: ‘No, an altered form of the oath has 
 been authorized, in which this clause is omitted, and this 
 altered form is the only one used in the British Empire.’ 
 Further on we are told that ‘on July 3, 1847, Pope Pius IX. 
 extended the same form to all parts of the United States.’ 
 Thus the clause translated, 7 will persecute / is not in use in 
 any of the English-speaking countries.” 
 
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 “So the oath stands unrevised, save in English-speaking 
 countries. Even in those, on the authority of Monsignor 
 Moyes, who writes for the Archbishop, there has been no 
 real change. For he says, ‘the alteration made in the form 
 of the oath altered in no respect the obligations of the 
 bishops, nor was it due in any way to any change or modifi¬ 
 cation of the church’s attitude toward what she holds to be 
 heresy or schism.’ What, then, was the meaning of the 
 deleted clause? ‘To Roman Catholic canonists,’ he de¬ 
 clares, ‘the clause means simply that a Catholic bishop shall 
 try, and, if need be, remove from the membership of the 
 church, members of the fold, clergy or laity, who reject her 
 teaching or authority.’ This, he adds, is ‘what an Anglican 
 Bishop or a Wesleyan conference would do’ in similar cir¬ 
 cumstances. 
 
 “This is all very simple and harmless, only history and 
 experience are against the Monsignor’s rendering. The 
 clause is generally translated, ‘I will persecute and assail all 
 heretics, schismatica, etc.’ Monsignor Moyes declares that 
 persequor and oppugno, the words translated ‘persecute’ 
 and ‘assail,’ really mean ‘to persecute’ and ‘contend against.’ 
 But, unfortunately for his contention, persequor also means 
 ‘to avenge,’ ‘to take vengeance on;’ and oppugno means ‘to 
 attack’ or ‘assail.’ And history, even as written by Rome’s 
 friends, testifies that Rome did something more than simply 
 put heretics and schismatics, ‘clergy or laity,’ outside her 
 membership. Mr. Wilfred Ward, B. A., Roman Catholic 
 member of the recent University Commission, is quoted in 
 Mr. Frank Hugh O’Donnell’s ‘Ruin of Education’ as say¬ 
 ing apropos of the Marian persecutions: ‘A war of this 
 kind declared against heresy, in which not even repentance 
 could save the victim from the stake, caused a deep dread 
 
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 of Roman fanaticism and Roman power, the effects of which 
 have not entirely passed away to his hour.’ 
 
 “Therefore, if the clause stands in its original meaning, 
 it stands for persecution. Monsignor Moyes says: ‘Oh! but 
 the church never persecuted. She simply handed the heretic, 
 after excommunication, over to the civil authority.’ Yes, 
 and then she held a pistol to the civil authority’s head. Even 
 today at the fountain head of Roman Catholicism ‘death 
 to heretics’ is taught. In the Gregorian University at Rome 
 there is a distinguished canonist, professor, and theologian, 
 Rev. Frank Marianus de Luca, S. J., who holds the impor¬ 
 tant chair of the Text of the Decretals, and is justly es¬ 
 teemed as one of the foremost minds of the Jesuit Society.” 
 So writes Mr. F. H. O’Donnell, M. A., in his ‘Ruin of Edu¬ 
 cation,’ p. 187. This professor has written extensively on 
 Canon and Public Ecclesiastical Law, and with the cordial 
 approval of his superiors. Amongst other things, he teaches: 
 ‘That (a) the church of Christ has the right of inflicting the 
 pain of death.’ (b) ‘As a perfect society the church must 
 kill.’ (c) Killing heretics is conducive to faith, (d) The 
 church is better entitled to kill than the state, (e) The re¬ 
 quest to the civil magistrate ‘not to kill’ is about equivalent 
 to ‘Don’t nail his ear to the pump.’ (‘ Tamen declaratum est 
 magistratum civilem per hoc non obligari et . sanguinem 
 non effiendendum .’)—Institutions, Vol. 1, p. 145. (f) The 
 state is bound to kill when ordered by the church, (g) Not 
 the amendment, but the death of the heretic is necessary, 
 (h) ‘By fire as well as by sword.’ (j) Civil governments re¬ 
 fusing to kill heretics are to be deposed. All this our read¬ 
 ers can see for themselves in the closing pages of Mr. 
 O’Donnell’s book. We can understand from the foregoing 
 what Rome intended in framing the oath of her bishops, 
 
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 and what her spirit is today. Fortunately for poor human¬ 
 ity, Protestantism has broken her power. 
 
 “We pass from this painful subject with one extract 
 from the present-day teaching of Father de Luca. It has 
 the approval, as already pointed out, of his superiors. But 
 instead of being Christian, it is truly diabolical. ‘The Cath¬ 
 olic Church has the right and the duty to kill heretics, be¬ 
 cause it is by fire and sword that heresy can be extir¬ 
 pated—mere excommunication is derided by the heretics. 
 If they are imprisoned or exiled, they corrupt others. The 
 only recourse is to put them to death. Repentance cannot 
 be allowed to save them, just as repentance is not allowed 
 to save criminals; for the highest good of the church is 
 unity of faith, and this cannot be preserved unless heretics 
 are put to death —haec servari nequit nisi hereticus merti 
 tradatur .—(‘Ruin of Education,’ p. 1.) This, though the 
 spirit of Rome, is not the spirit of Christ.” 27 
 
 27. Taken from Rome’s Secret Societies and Oaths. 
 
CHAPTER X. 
 
 A MESSAGE FOR THE ROMAN CATHOLIC LAITY. 
 
 Whatever may have been said in these pages about the 
 Roman Catholic hierarchy has been said in the spirit of 
 most profound sympathy for the laity of that System. For 
 you we have nothing but the most sincere sympathy and re¬ 
 spect, and for your emancipation have these pages been 
 written. For every one of you we labor to bring you out 
 into the full liberty of real true men; to you we would see 
 come that freedom of thought, freedom of conscience, which 
 belongs to real manhood; to you we long to see that enjoy¬ 
 ment of intellectual liberty which the Protestants enjoy 
 without being told what to think and how far to think on 
 any subject. 
 
 In other words our ambition is to see you take your 
 place in the world as real men held back by no mediaeval 
 tradition, no ecclesiastical restrictions, or Pagan supersti¬ 
 tions. 
 
 You are the victims of birth and education, as unfor¬ 
 tunate as it has proved to be impotent in your preparation 
 to take your place in life with men who are free of the limi¬ 
 tations your System imposes upon you. We know being 
 born into a system of superstition is no fault of yours; we 
 know you have been deprived of the opportunities of your 
 birthright; we know you are capable of as true aspirations, 
 as great accomplishments, as lofty purposes, as rich re¬ 
 wards if left free as others are in the development of these 
 attributes. This is the chief aim of this greeting to you at 
 
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 this time. Your shackles are our burden, your liberation 
 our prayer. Before you were born the shackles were placed 
 upon you and you were practically mortgaged to a system 
 that has fastened itself upon you as a ghostly nightmare 
 and under its heavy weight you have struggled to be men 
 with a thousand odds against you. As you grew to man¬ 
 hood, aspirations to become the equal of any man were 
 choked back by the withering breath of the System into 
 which you were unfortunately born when you landed in this 
 world. 
 
 It is not necessary to remind you that your System has 
 produced no really great men. Nations have for a thou¬ 
 sand years sat under its teaching and no great achievements 
 in the march to a high civilization have been recorded. No 
 
 renowned statesmen, no illustrious hero, no leading edu- 
 
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 cator, no prominent reformer, no remarkable orator, no 
 foremost citizen has yet arisen out of your System to go 
 down in history to serve posterity as a pattern.. 
 
 We do not say this in the sense which might be con¬ 
 strued as laying any blame upon you; we say it to convince 
 you that the System in whose clutches you are placed is 
 unworthy to longer hold you back and rob you of those at¬ 
 tributes which make for full-fledged men. 
 
 You are men possessed of power to think, and in your 
 secret thought you do not believe that your System pos¬ 
 sesses the exclusive corner on salvation of the human race. 
 You do not believe that the men who have in the past cen¬ 
 turies done so much to advance civilization and who wrote 
 those immortal words on the escutcheon of freedom of 
 thought and of speech, the brotherhood of man, are de¬ 
 praved creatures lost to God and to the world as your Sys¬ 
 tem teaches. In your own minds, irrespective of the priest- 
 
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 craft of your System, you know that these men are the 
 equal and the superior of any Roman Catholic. You cer¬ 
 tainly do not accept the doctrine of that graft-getting buga¬ 
 boo, purgatory, which came into your System centuries 
 after it was established and in which good Catholics suffer 
 the torments of the damned unless some priest, who is an 
 ordinary human being just as you are, chooses to unlock 
 the doors of torment and liberate that soul. With all the 
 influence of your early education, you cannot now conceive 
 it possible that a soul must remain in torment indefinitely un¬ 
 less some priest has his heart softened with dollars in order 
 to relieve that soul. Think, men, what this means. Think 
 of being part and parcel of a System so damnably heart¬ 
 less as to refuse to relieve suffering even on this earth until 
 his greedy maw had been first satisfied with contributions of 
 money. What would you say of a man whom you saw re¬ 
 fuse to rescue a helpless person from a burning building 
 until some one stepped up and paid him money in order to 
 move his heart? Great God, how unthinkable. The most 
 depraved criminal in our penal institutions would not hesi¬ 
 tate one second to render aid in such an emergency, though 
 your own priests will let souls fry in torment till the judg¬ 
 ment day and not raise a hand to help them unless they are 
 paid for the service in the coin of the realm. 
 
 You know it is the implement of the priestcraft to wring 
 money from the faithful ones and for this purpose it was 
 created and adopted by your System. In order to hold the 
 whip over you, your priests assume the power to forgive 
 your sins, and without the exercise of this divine power you 
 are eternally lost throughout all eternity. Now, brothers, 
 if you will use your thinking powers just one moment, you 
 
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 cannot help but know that such a doctrine is delusive and 
 damnable. 
 
 You know just as sure as you know anything that there 
 is not, cannot be, any power in the priest other than you 
 yourselves possess. You know that he is a human being 
 and fully as human as you are and that he has no power 
 to forgive you the sins of your inmost heart any more than 
 has a stone. How under heaven can you have any respect 
 for a man who plays the role of a deceiver in so important 
 a point as the immortal soul of a human being? How can you 
 tolerate for one moment a doctrine that has its foundation 
 in a besotted Paganism which was created in order to exer¬ 
 cise power over people to be used for personal gain? 
 Great God, men, how can you countenance such a doctrine, 
 which at best is unscriptural, unthinkable, unjust and unrea¬ 
 sonable? These men who assume to forgive sins are in 
 ninety-nine cases out of a hundred not half so honest, not 
 half as godly, not half so virtuous, not half so sober, not 
 half so spiritual as you are. Wherefore have they the power 
 that belongs only to Almighty God and you cast off to run 
 the gauntlet of being able to reach some petticoated human 
 being in order that your sins might be forgiven and all the 
 while the mercy of a gracious God inviting you to come 
 direct to a throne of grace and find forgiveness in abundance 
 for your shortcomings. Could reason be more completely 
 dethroned than to believe in the power of man to forgive 
 sins? 
 
 Then again, your System is not satisfied with wither¬ 
 ing your hopes, with warping your aspirations, with curbing 
 your ambitions, with stifling your aims, with curtailing your 
 liberties, but it comes between you and your God by assum¬ 
 ing to be the sole possessor of the keys to the great unknown 
 
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 and in this way holds you in its strong embrace FOR A 
 PURPOSE. What this purpose is you may gather from 
 
 the chapters of this book. The Hierarchy to which you be¬ 
 long cannot plead that it is holding you, because it turns 
 out better men, more fully equipped men, men who more 
 generally pass to the leadership in the great achievements 
 of the world, men who become the greater educators, men 
 who receive the plaudits of mankind for their marvelous 
 achievements, men who are foremost in lightening the bur¬ 
 dens of the oppressed. Your own observations tell you 
 that these things are not the fruits of the Roman Catholic 
 system. You know right well that you have up to date 
 produced no great men—men who have gone down in his¬ 
 tory as the models for posterity to worship. For this very 
 reason our sympathy is aroused for you. We have ob¬ 
 served the conditions in Italy, Portugal, Cuba, South Amer¬ 
 ica, Mexico and the Philippines, where the people have been 
 taught by your system for centuries. Behold them today. 
 Take a long look at them. You would consider it a great 
 breach of etiquette to be found associated with them if they 
 come to this country. 
 
 If your system possesses the moral uplift, if it is the 
 great civilizer, if it has that which makes men manly men, 
 why has it not left the fruits of its holy unction upon these 
 nations ? ' 
 
 Why, my Catholic citizen, has every nation over 
 which the Roman Catholic system ruled been a nation 
 which went backward, rather than marched in the pro¬ 
 cession of progressive civilization? We have the right, 
 you have the right, to ask this question, and to satisfy 
 your own mind why it has withered rather than caused 
 
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 to bloom all nations over which it has held the balance 
 of power? 
 
 2. Another phase of the subject bears hard upon 
 our sympathy for you. Possibly you are the father 
 of children for whose welfare you are responsible. 
 Think of it, men; your children are as dear to you, as 
 any parent’s children; they are just as worthy of the 
 best in life as are ours; they have just as much ambi¬ 
 tion to take their places as useful citizens as any chil¬ 
 dren. Can you remain content to see them shackled 
 with weights which you know will rob them of those 
 attributes that develop into real true greatness and 
 such as these innocent ones are robbed of in order that 
 they may believe in purgatory and such other doctrines 
 as bring great gain to the despotic system which blights 
 nations and blurs visions of true greatness. You do not, 
 you can not, have faith in a system which must appeal 
 to unsuspecting childhood for recruits to maintain it. 
 You know as well as we know that your system cannot 
 influence one in a million adults to join it. You also 
 know that it must depend upon moulding the child mind 
 by opening the clammy jaws of indescribable torment to 
 the pliable child mind and thus indelibly stamp abject 
 fear of the sizzling abyss of torment in order to fit that 
 mind for the reception of the deceptive doctrines which 
 are to follow. 
 
 Your system dare not get out alongside the Baptists 
 the Presbyterians, and the half-dozen other church organi¬ 
 zations, and reason with men and women to accept the 
 doctrines of your System. You have no arguments that 
 you dare present your cause to intelligent, sane, thinking 
 men and women. The vilifications and brick-bats of your 
 
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 priests are not the arguments you would use. To attract 
 the personal character of those who do not believe in 
 your system is not your argument. It belongs to the 
 priestcraft of your system and is one of those heavenly 
 attributes (?) taught only to priests in your theological 
 seminaries. 
 
 There may have been a time when you thought all 
 this was right, because a dear mother told you it was 
 what the holy father said. But, men, you are living in 
 the twentieth century now, and you owe posterity a debt 
 you cannot pay by leading it into the errors into which 
 you have fallen. 
 
 An unfettered intellect, an unbridled thought, a full 
 and untrammeled aspiration, and the liberty to reach out 
 after Almighty God as the dictates of free conscience 
 may suggest, are the foundations upon which nations and 
 individuals attain true greatness. The inculcation of 
 these principles is the duty of every American Citizen, 
 be he Protestant or Catholic. To help you to attain 
 unto this by breaking the shackles binding you in the 
 musty atmosphere of medisevalism is our aim. 
 
J 
 
ADDRESS OF WELCOME 
 
 DELIVERED BY 
 
 D. J. Reynolds, Esq., National President 
 
 American Federation of Patriotic Societies, 
 Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 Delivered at First Annual Convention at Congress Hotel, Chicago, 
 
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 June 23, 1914. 
 
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 The timeless impulse of the world is human. As strove 
 our fathers to express their humanity in their lives and in¬ 
 stitutions, so strive we. And as no small part of their 
 striving was to break the fetters that hampered their free 
 expression, even so it is with us. Generation after genera¬ 
 tion, our sires and forefathers have striven to free our 
 race from the enslavement of body, mind and soul. 
 
 The oldest and greatest curse which has pursued human¬ 
 ity from the earliest history to the present time is slavery 
 in its various aspects. That we meet here today openly, 
 and with the right of free speech, is due to their sacrifice 
 and struggles. Each generation has had to meet the same 
 old foes, wearing new faces at times, but ever with the same 
 claim of authority over body, mind and soul. The measure 
 of freedom that we enjoy today has been dearly purchased. 
 The thirsty earth has drunk the best blood of our human¬ 
 kind as payment for what human rights we have. Ever 
 since Constantine paganized Christianity, Christian history 
 has been written in the blood of martyred men who gave 
 their lives for truth, that truth which makes men free. How 
 highly, then, should we prize so dearly bought a heritage. 
 For centuries past, the arch foe of liberty has worn one 
 face, consistently. It is a Roman face and shows forth the 
 Roman spirit. It is the Roman eagle of the empire, usurping 
 the Christ upon the cross. The beak of that Roman eagle is 
 red with the blood of martyred millions who dared to ques¬ 
 tion spiritual enslavement. That eagle maw is crammed 
 with the wealth wrung from the needs of the world’s 
 
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 suffen.ig poor. That eagle’s lust of power is never sated, 
 for it beats its wings over all lands alike, with brutal claim 
 of dominance, because of the cross upon which it falsely 
 rests its claims. Our fathers cowered in fear before the 
 fierce beating of those cruel wings. At times they gave 
 their all, in abject obedience to this relentless, voracious 
 power whose ghostly claims made it so formidable, for it 
 asserted its possession of the keys of heaven and hell, the 
 power to bind or to loose for eternity. At times our fathers 
 met and discussed this monstrous power and its monstrous 
 claims that held them bound slaves in body, mind and soul, 
 but it was by stealth, and with bated breath and in whispered 
 tones, for if this power should learn of a stir for any degree 
 of freedom, woe was his who spoke the word or listened 
 to it, and yet in increasing numbers, brave men dared to 
 speak the word and bear the penalty, until at last the price 
 was paid and a measure of liberty won. 
 
 Today we gather for the self-same purpose. As a de¬ 
 liberative body, we are here to sanely discuss the proposi¬ 
 tion that Romanism and free American institutions cannot 
 long dwell together in peace upon this continent. Approach¬ 
 ing our assembly in this spirit, I tremble before the import¬ 
 ance of our act; I hesitate before the duty that my office 
 lays upon me, of calling you and welcoming you to this city, 
 a great center of power and influence in the gigantic empire 
 of the Middle West, for the purpose of our meeting and 
 uttering a message expressive of the hope of this gathering 
 of the American Federation of Patriotic Societies. Even if 
 the cause for which we stand were not so great, I should 
 still feel the awe of speaking for the ideals of the progress¬ 
 ive manhood of our great American citizenship as ex¬ 
 pressed by this organization. But I take courage when I 
 
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 realize what is in your hearts and the hearts of all liberty- 
 loving men and women the world around. You do not de¬ 
 pend for your loyalty, inspiration and courage upon my 
 faltering sentences. In fact, it is your greatness of heart 
 and exaltedness of spirit that makes it possible for me to 
 speak at all, and the prayers of the countless souls who 
 look to us to safeguard them and our country from the 
 dangers threatened to our free institutions by an insidious 
 foe who would also bar our free approach to the God of 
 our fathers, hiding him behind the priestly power that makes 
 a trade of religion and a profit out of men’s spiritual needs. 
 
 But while we have not gathered here to quarrel with 
 any man’s religious views, we would deserve the censure 
 of every drop of blood shed for us by our forefathers, 
 should we fail to challenge the avowed designs of the Roman 
 hierarchy upon America’s free institutions. We are here to 
 challenge her for gross discrimination in her underhanded 
 political machinations, whereby she has Catholicized Amer¬ 
 ican battleships and government training schools and filled 
 in vastly undue proportion the strategic official positions 
 in our cities, municipalities, states, and the national govern¬ 
 ment itself. It is not our province to differentiate between 
 the Roman Catholic Church and other religious denomina¬ 
 tions, only as we are compelled to recognize her as the 
 natural ally, tool and feeder of the hierarchy which is utiliz¬ 
 ing that church organization to subvert and destroy our fair 
 institutions of free and equal rights. 
 
 We come in the spirit of the great soul who not alone 
 said, but practiced in its full, the creed of “malice toward 
 none and charity for all.” We want what He wanted: the 
 full, free sway of the human impulse in the life of men. 
 In this, our great campaign of education, it is our purpos'e to 
 
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 discover the lairs of our foes and their plans of aggression 
 so that we may pour the light of publicity upon all attempts 
 to thwart and pervert the spirit and institutions of liberty 
 which are the glorious jewels of the American people. To 
 this end, let us promote, in every way, the circulation of our 
 patriotic non-Romanized papers and literature. In so doing 
 we prove not alone the friends of those who are our friends, 
 but the friends of our foes, for we seek to open to them by 
 their very defeat, the way to an independent manhood, such 
 as cannot be theirs under the dominance of the old system 
 of inherited religious opinions. 
 
 Many fairly intelligent Protestants do not appreciate, 
 as yet, what this organization and this great educational 
 movement means to them. They sleep in ignorance of the 
 activity of a foe that never sleeps, one that never has vol¬ 
 untarily surrendered a vantage gained and never has re-, 
 linquished a claim once made; and what a tremendous and 
 audacious claim Rome makes when she claims authority 
 over the temporal and spiritual realms of life. Where she 
 can, she openly dominates; where the public schools ob¬ 
 tain and intelligence is greater, her power is proportionately 
 less. She is a past master at secret and subtile means to 
 gain her end. She never sleeps, but “with colors fairer 
 painted to her foul ends,” works her mole-like way into the 
 seats of power and rules under the cover of some fair ap¬ 
 pearing guise, and all this while Protestantism sweetly 
 sleeps. 
 
 As an organization, we have voluntarily assumed the 
 patriotic duties thus neglected and are ready to bear the 
 dangers and odium of a combat with a secret foe, that we 
 may save our country’s sacred institutions of liberty from 
 the foe, who is eager, beyond measure, to destroy them. 
 
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 When Goethe said, “He only has a right to liberty and 
 existence who daily conquers them anew,” he expressed in 
 another way that “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” 
 But how shall we keep vigilant? We are so occupied with 
 the cares of life and of pleasure as to give us very little 
 time to think of large problems and none to watch our own 
 interests and welfare in the warring forces of society. Such 
 liberty as has been achieved for us has been secured by 
 the efforts of those who have united voluntarily to do, as 
 organizations, what they could not do independently. When 
 a cause is won, then many are praiseful for that which they 
 never supported by word or deed. Even so, that element of 
 Protestantism that, through supineness or fear, does not take 
 active part with us will one day arise to call us “blessed,” 
 as the saviours of their liberty, but until then, we are on 
 duty as volunteer guards of the world’s most choice treas¬ 
 ures, and stand over against an organized hierarchy, the 
 power of which would dismay us were it not for the knowl¬ 
 edge of the righteousness of our cause and the power of 
 truth to conquer evil. The Church of Rome, the tool of the 
 hierarchy, the arch foe of political and religious liberty, has 
 always been organized. Society has succeeded society in the 
 hour of her need. She met the Reformation with the So¬ 
 ciety of Jesus, the Jesuits, a child worthy of such a mother, 
 a militant organization that is hated now as intensely by 
 all intelligent people as it was then, for the Jesuit has ever 
 been redoubtable because unscrupulous, a foe of liberty, 
 dealing his assassin blows in the dark. 
 
 And let me say right here, in the spirit of kindness, 
 deliberation, fair-mindedness and candor, that the most 
 colossal fraud ever perpetrated upon the human race, in all 
 recorded history, was when the world was “gold-bricked” 
 
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 by the working off of that old “mother of harlots,” the 
 Roman Catholic system, a political grafting machine, as 
 Christianity. In this statement I know I am voicing the 
 sentiments of the intelligent elements of the world. But 
 ih° most stupenduous, the most pitiful blunder ever made 
 since God permitted man to set his foot upon this globe was 
 when a considerable portion of the human race accepted 
 that indulgence vending system, making merchandise out 
 of the spiritual needs of poor, suffering humanity, as rep¬ 
 resenting the meek and lowly Saviour, Jesus Christ, upon 
 this earth. Great God! If we could only reach and unde¬ 
 ceive these poor down-trodden, priest-ridden people and 
 make them understand that we are their real friends! It is 
 admittedly a hard case, for there is no man so blind as the 
 one who will not see, and that is the kind of blindness Rome 
 inflicts upon her victims. This is the proposition now be¬ 
 fore us, and we believe, to which the free institutions of the 
 world are fairly committed to stand or fall. To meet the 
 crisis caused by the American spirit, which by virtue of 
 its ideals, causes the Roman hierarchy to lose its power over 
 its credulous and devoted dupes and followers, the rulers of 
 that church have called into existence and are promoting 
 a secret order called, “The Knights of Columbus,” whose 
 sworn duty it is to carry forward, in whatever manner indi¬ 
 cated by the hierarchy, the propagation of the power of 
 Rome. Evidently, this new and militant body must exist, 
 to extend Rome’s power, because the Church itself, in 
 America, in the exercise of its spiritual functions, has never 
 been threatened. Does Rome intend to proclaim a temporal 
 power here, that she needs an armed force to establish it? 
 Such would seem to be the logical conclusion from the 
 facts. If such danger threatens, who is to thwart it, unless 
 
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 it be a body of men organized to stand together in fraternal 
 touch to withstand all encroachment upon our civil and re¬ 
 ligious liberty? But our brief purpose and greatest power 
 is not to be found in defensive measures. We, too, in a 
 way, must be a militant body, but our weapons are not those 
 of carnal warfare, but those forged by the spirit of liberty 
 and brotherly love which win by enlightenment and conquer 
 to make men glad. In fact, it is this spirit that makes Ro¬ 
 manism ever upon the defensive. It may well despise the 
 attacks of sects and even our onslaught, unless we use this 
 weapon forged to our hand. The ramparts of Rome cannot 
 be raised high enough to shut out the spirit of an age. This 
 is a reading, thinking, progressive age and all of the com¬ 
 bined powers of hell and Romanism cannot make it other¬ 
 wise. The Roman Catholic hierarchy, creation of the Dark 
 Ages, cannot stand before the light. In this country in par¬ 
 ticular, it finds it hard to hold its own immovably, because 
 the very air of our loved America breathes freedom, lib¬ 
 erty, democracy, while the Roman Church, the greatest 
 promoter of ignorance and superstition, is the very antithesis 
 of these. It is because this is the atmosphere of the public 
 school that Rome establishes the parochial school where the 
 spirit of liberty may be smothered and her tenets of au¬ 
 thority maintained. She denies her children the public 
 school because they would learn to think. She has in every 
 age and every country, always denied, as she is doing today, 
 her people the means of enlightenment, as far as possible, 
 for this same reason. Rome’s idea of religious liberty, 
 where she dominates, is liberty to worship as she directs or 
 go to the torture. The greatest service which free educa¬ 
 tion has rendered man has been to equip him for private 
 thinking. But the greatest achievement of the hierarchy, 
 
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 in America, is her boasted subversion of the public press. 
 The school gives man private opinions. As a result of 
 them he has private property and private rights. Thomas 
 Jefferson once uttered a great truth when he said that 
 “when God gave man life he gave him liberty.” This is what 
 Rome dreads, for she wants him to consider that he derives 
 all he has from her and holds it with her permission. 
 
 What a compliment Rome pays to the power of private 
 thinking! To forbid discussion is to recommend ignorance, 
 for not to discuss is not to fully comprehend, and there¬ 
 fore not to understand, so erroneous ideas will be held. We 
 see here why the development of intellect among their 
 laity is commended by Rome. Just as a burglar tries to 
 disarm his victim before robbing him, or just as soldiers 
 must give up their arms before they become prisoners, the 
 first thing a priest does is to induce his victim to give up 
 his independence of thought. Take his advice and part 
 with your birthright, your intelligence, your natural de¬ 
 fensive weapon and you are forever after his prisoner and 
 his slave. Now, this is the exact condition of millions of 
 our fellow citizens. Bad enough it is to have life and 
 lamb at the mercy of a crowned tyrant, or of a lawless mob, 
 but not half so bad as to have one’s inmost soul and con¬ 
 science under the absolute sway of a priest or “Prince of 
 the Blood” who has usurped the place of the Most High 
 and dared to wield on earth the powers that are exclusively 
 Divine. 
 
 I do not denounce living priests. They are but creatures 
 of circumstance and legitimate children of a Mother whose 
 abominations have filled Christendom with misery, crime, 
 pollution and cruelty. They are only what they were made, 
 the logical sequence of the teachings of such a system 
 
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 .and what they have been taught to regard as their divine 
 calling. The wonder is that they behave as well as they 
 do and are not even more corrupted by the terrible tempta¬ 
 tions of their position: but I do denounce him or them 
 who first set up this hell-born house of bondage and who 
 first forged these fetters for the human soul. ' But I keep 
 my deepest abhorrence and my strongest denunciations for 
 that man—whoever it was—who first dared on earth to 
 assume the functions of godhead and to make false pre¬ 
 tense of passing on to his followers the mighty powers for 
 evil which he falsely claimed as his own. Let a grateful 
 Christendom, all stained with bloodshed, her victims roasted 
 and charred in flames made holy by the torch of priests, 
 her victories over benighted savage, mingling the waters of 
 holy baptism with the purple life-blood of murdered prose¬ 
 lytes ; let Christendom with its darkness, fire and chains, 
 go back on bended knees to thank her unknown founder 
 for having blessed her with such a begetting. Let her pride 
 herself on being the possessor of the secret by which she 
 has made kings and emperors to lick the dust, has trampled 
 on the rights of man and offered holocausts of loving hearts 
 in her zeal for the Church. And yet we might possibly 
 tolerate all of the arrogance of Romanism and her cruel 
 and unsavory record if she confined her activities to the 
 [Spiritual side of life and this for only willing dupes and 
 devotees, but she can be content with nothing less than uni¬ 
 versal dominance in all phases of intellectual, political and 
 spiritual life. We are here, my fellow citizens, to devise 
 means and ways whereby we may thwart this never dis¬ 
 avowed purpose, and ever determinedly pursued goal of 
 Romanism. 
 
 We know of only two ways of conquering: The old 
 
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 way was destructive, by weakening, exhausting and anni¬ 
 hilating the opposing forces; the new and better way, the 
 Protestant way, is constructive, to make one’s self in every 
 way superior. It is our duty to so wisely plan that we may 
 show the world the value of the new thought, the new and 
 better way in the new day of the free man, and thus keep 
 our fellows with their faces to the progressive future in¬ 
 stead of turning to the reactionary past for direction. But 
 it is not enough to hold the truth nor to proclaim it, it must 
 be defended as well. This is where we as the American 
 Federation, find our special mission and our greatest soli¬ 
 darity. We may not always agree upon the minutiae of 
 what we call the truth, but we can agree and stand upon 
 common ground in our resistance to the foe that threatens 
 our religious and political liberty. We are united by the 
 spirit of freedom, the one successful resistant to Rome’s 
 aggressive forces. We are the minute men of the forces 
 of freedom. It is ours to watch the foe and meet priestly 
 machinations with the ready front of exposure and de¬ 
 fense. For many of our Catholic fellow-citizens we have 
 nothing but love and respect. They are often good people 
 in spite of their religion, especially in countries like this, 
 where they have been raised under the refining influence 
 of Protestantism. We are sorry to see them used by the 
 priestly instruments of a foreign power to try to establish 
 principles that are foreign to the American spirit, but we 
 realize that they are the victims of the system to which they 
 adhere, while honestly trying to do conscientiously the will 
 of a foreign master. Our defense is for the institutions of 
 our country—institutions that have made her the light and 
 the hope of the oppressed of the world. It is the purpose 
 of our organization to be a powerful factor in this great 
 
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 world movement to defend the rights of men to the free 
 disposal and the unfoldment of their own lives; to pro¬ 
 tect the free public schools that our fathers in their wisdom 
 founded to be the bulwark of the state by the creation of 
 intelligence. We stand for the free and pure ballot whereby 
 free men express their convictions as to governmental ques¬ 
 tions without dictation of creed or priest. We stand for the 
 non-interference of church with state and pledge our power 
 to secure this end. And lastly and greatest of all, we stand 
 for that freedom of worship that is to be found in a free 
 Bible, whereby every man may satisfy his own spiritual 
 nature with a free conscience. This is the true glory of 
 our manhood: the free man walking with God in the daily 
 use of his powers for the benefit of humanity and the 
 freedom of the home from priestly dominance. 
 
 For the protection of these things and to promote them 
 we have volunteered and having once enlisted there is for 
 us no turning back. Under God the political, social and 
 religious future is the free man. May his divine guidance 
 imbue the deliberations of this great patriotic assembly 
 with the spirit of wisdom and brotherly love. 
 


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