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Who Puts Up the Money for
William Howard Taft ?
Mr. Taft is one of the few who, having been
elected President, was refused a second term.
He never would have been elected had not
Roosevelt secured his nomination, revised his
platform, and put energy into his campaign.
The debt to Roosevelt being apparent to
'everybody, Mr. Taft had to assert his manly inde¬
pendence by offensively repudiating his creditor,
immediately after his election.
It was the rankest, blackest piece of political Garfield
' ingratitude the country has known, since
Avent back on Conkling.
As in the one case, so in the other, the conse¬
quences of this perfidy were disastrous: Garfield
lost his life, and Conkling his Senatorial office; and
Roosevelt was so furiously enraged against Taft
that he rent the Republican party asunder, rather
than allow the ingrate to enjoy a second term.
Having paved the >vay for Mr. Wilson’s
election, Mr. Taft began to tell young men—at
Yale, I believe—what, he knew about law.
It didn’t take him long to do this, because the
law After is one of emptying Taft’s short upon suits. the I ale students the
little that he knew about law, Mr. Taft enlisted in
the compaign for the League of Nations.
This was a hard slam on the League.
The more Taft likes it, the more it loses in
the confidence of “the human race.”
To see Woodrow Wilson entering court as the
next friend of humanity, is bad enough; but to
see Mr. Taft volunteer to serve the suffering
democracy of a sin-cursed world, is an agony to
the flesh.
For months, Mr. Taft has been inflicted upon
conscripted audiences, and he has said some won¬
derful things in favor of a League of Nations.
He was a middle-aged man while he occupied
the White House, and he spent most of his time
taking vacations: therefore it’s a wonder he didn’t
think up this League of Nations.
The idea itself is not new.
The ancients experimented with it, again and
again, but their Leagues failed because human na¬
ture is just what it is.
During the Middle Ages, the League idea was
popular, at times, but never workable.
In »1815, the latest League for universal peace
was formed, and it included all the great'-con
tinental powers.
The Prince Regent of England endorsed it.
and the Pope was a secret party to it.
Yet it could not be held together, and it fail¬
ed to keep the peace.
Within few years after the .eague—
Allianee-r-was created, wars brol out in
arts of Europe and, the League went to
Spaniard;
ously enforce
ipecial.
i of it.
its are firiam ?
Baruch, Lamont, Davis , and the
Open Covenants.
In December, 1916, the President issued his
Christmas-Gift Sermon, pleading for Peace with¬
out victory—a peace that would leave all mankind
in a good humor.
“It was a fine sermon,” said millions of good
ladies, of both sexes.
Indeed it was a regular Peaoe-on-earth deliv¬
erance; and it seemed so likely to beat swords and
plough-shares into pruning hooks and fishing
tackle, that Bernard Baruch and others, speculated
on “advance information.”
They made pots of money.
But how did the secret leak out?
The President had typed the message with his
own hands on his own machine, and had not spoken
to a soul: whence the leak?
There was a great fuss, and scores of indig¬
nant Democrats swore to Heaven that they would
investigate the thing to the very bottom and when
they fixed the leak on the guilty party, they
would perform painful operations upon that per¬
son.
What came of all this righteous racket?
Nothing came of it.
A young society lady, sixteen years old, had
heard about the Peace message at Tumulty’s, and
had blabbed.
As soon as the leak was thus apparently
“fixed” upon the President’s Jesuit secretary, 1 the
Democratic bear-killers immediately abandoned
the hunt, saying that they could not pay atten¬
tion to the gabble of “children.”
At the age of sixteen, the Washington young
ladies are not supposed to be competent witnesses!
At least, not when their evidence embarrass¬
es Tumulty, and the President.
To the Paris Peace Confeemec, went Ber¬
nard Baruch; and iioav the country and the Con¬
gress are all stirred up about another leak.
It is a “singular coincidence” that Bernard
Baruch should be right at the bunghole, every time
there is a leak: there seems to be a fatality about
it: if such things continue, we shall inevitably
become superstitious.
If Bernard and his pals made millions on
the first leak, it is natural to suppose they will
make billions on the second, because the opportun
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ities in the one case are so much vaster than in
the other.
But who is responsible for Baruch’s confi¬
dential intimacy with the peace juggles?
Who selected J. P. Morgan’s partners, La
mont and Davis?
No wonder Wall Street know? about the
secret treaty, and is speculating on it, at a time
when the U. S. Seriate and people are kept in the
dark.
When the President declared war upon the
old methods of secrecy in treaty-making, what did
he mean?
When he declared that hereafter the old
secret methods must give way to open covenants
openly arrived at, what did he mean?
He Avas as near the expression of his hidden
meaning, as he was when he said that we entered
the war for the purpose of giving every people
the right to decide for themselves what sort of
government should be put over them.
The Secretary of the Navy Claims
that He Fooled Us.
The Hon. Jeseph E. Daniels (formerly a
respectable but obscure editor of a North Caro¬
lina paper) is the Secretary of the U. S. Navy.
In firing a salute to him, one time, the Master
Mariner miscounted and shot off nineteen salvos
instead of twenty: the guilty man was severely
punished. (Discipline must be maintained.)
When die Germans sank the American vessel,
the William G. Frye, and the officers of the pirate
ship were afterwards captured, they were given an
ovation at Norfolk by the Hon. Joseph E. Daniels,
and occupied seats of honor at the launching of a
new U. S. battleship.
Subsequently, the pirates were released on
their parole, and of course they returned to Ger¬
many, as any ordinary man might have known
they would.
Soon after the Sacred Cow had arrived in
Paris, the Hon. Daniels filled the Patriotic Press
Avith stentorian demands for the biggest NaVy in
the world.
Hon. Joseph required that Congress imme¬
diately appropriate $750,000,000 for the construc¬
tion of additional war vessels, in order that Great
Britain lie relegated to second place.
Our salvation depended on this: it must be
done, or the glorious War would have been fought
in
Indescribeble calamities, catastrophes and col¬
lapses would befall us, unless we at once gave this
money to the Hon. Joseph E.
And yet, he goes before a Congressional Com¬
mittee, within the last few days, and amiably ad¬
mits that he was merely telling lies, for effect.
He now says, that he did not really need the
money, did ntit want if, and did not expect to got
----sew ..
Does he expect us to forget that the Constitu¬
tion of the League was the work of General
Smuts, who acted for England?
Does he believe we do not know that the gist
of the League is the insurance policy we issue to
England, guaranteeing to her the perpetual hold¬
ing of subjected peoples?
Mr. Daniels confesses that he was not telling
the truth, a few months ago: how do we know that
he is telling it now?
This Administration has dealt in subterfuge,
duplicity, and bluff until it is bankrujft in the con
fidence of the people.
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their votes as to advance the interests of their for¬
eign church.
Cardinal Gibbons never fails to tell the faith¬
ful how to vote.
Is it a question of public ownership of public
utilities?
Gibbons f ulminates against it.
,1s it a question of Prohibition?
Gibbons pronomces against it.
Is it a question of universal compulsory mili¬
tary service?
Gibbons publishes the strongest endorsement
of it.
Hot a single public question can get by Gib¬
bons: lie never fails to give the papal signal.
In every Presidenial campaign, Gibbons is on
deck, ordering the Catholic voters to the polls, in
support of Taft, as against Roosevelt; and of Wil¬
son as against Taft, and so on.
W ho doesn’t know that Gibbons and his fel¬
low priests elected Cleveland, and got as a re
ward, the concession of a Papal ambassador to the
Government of the United States?
Do we not know that Gibbons, Ireland and
Farley compelled the national Democratic Party
to drop from its platform the plank which praised
the Public Schools, as nurseries of democracy?
Who doesn’t see the hand of Rome in the
Espionage act, the conscript law, the muzzling of
the press, the savage prosecution and punishment
of free speech and brutal breaking up of peaceable
assemblages? Rome
has a finger in every political pie in
America, and anybody who wants to see it, can see
it.
W ith an artle&sness that is captivating, Mr.
O’Connor inquires—
“If the Catholic Church is such
a menace to our American institutions
why is it that the warning is not sounded
by such men as William Howard Taft,
Elihu Root, Samuel Gompers, the Gov¬
ernors of our States, our Senators and
Congressmen, our eminent lawyers and
prominent physicians and leading business
men?”
“Such men as William Howard Taft,” O
Lord!
This William Howard Person published a re
port on Catholic fruits in the Phillipine Islands,
and it was such a damning indictment of the
Roman system that the priests suppressed it—and
Taft virtually renigged on it.
(Write to The Menace, Aurora, Missouri, and
get a copy of “Senate Document No. 190. price
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Jompers.
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monism ?
Why don they attack the Trusts, Tammany
Hall, Railroad monopolies, Steel Trust rapacity,
Standard Oil methods, and Meat packing rob¬
beries ?
When Elihu Root turns reformer, the Wash¬
ington monument will sweat blood.
As to Samuel Gompers, the tears rolled down
his cheeks, a few years ago, when Judge Wright
was sentencing him for contempt of court—in the
matter of the Danburv hatters—but here of late
he has been taken up on to a high mountain, and
has had a glorious view of things, at Paris and
elsewhere: therefore Samuel need not be expected
to attack Romanism, any time soon.
As to Governors, we’ve got them started—one
in I lorida, another in Alabama—and we may have
quite a few of them travelling in 1920.
Patience, O’Connor! Rome was not built in a
day, you know.
Mr. O’Connor says—
“If you are ignorant of the Catholic
Church read history and if you will not
believe history go to a Catholic Church
any time and see for yourself what kind
of an institution she is. You will have
nothing to fear. Some of the most fervent
Catholics today were once her bitterest
enemies. ”
^ °u might go to a Catholic church every Sun¬
day for twenty years—as O’Connor has done—and
never learn the true inwardness of the Papal sys¬
tem.
If he knows nothing more than he has seen
and heard at the Cathedral, he is incompetent to
discuss the character, the laws, the inevitable ten¬
dencies, and the crime-breeding theology of his
church.
I he priest does not tell his congregtion that
St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that it is lawful to
kill obstinate heretics; yet St. Thomas’ theology is
the text-book of Universities where priests are
educated for the ministry.
You may go to a Catholic church ever so of¬
ten, and never learn why it is that the Roman sys¬
tem requires so many secret societies, whose under¬
ground Aivork is a hidden mystery to such church¬
going laymen as R. A. O’Connor.
In the Catholic churches of America the
priests are too wise to preach the nasty doctrine of
Rome, that Protestant marriage is nothing more
than filthy concubinage, whose issue are bastards.
In the church, you will not hear the doctrine
which denies heaven to spotless infants, who die in
the arms of Christian mothers.
No, indeed! The Catholic men and women
who go to church, and who never push their in¬
vestigations further, will never know why the re¬
cord of Popery reeks with vice, crime and all
manner of abominations.
The inner laws and the secret societies produce
these fearful consequences; but, if you would un¬
derstand what those laws and secret societies
actually are, you must listen to something besides
Catholic homilies, and read something more than
goody-goody Catholic books. •
“The Peoples are in the Saddle.”
(continued from page one.)
come of the poor, doAvn-trodden Monopolists.
The other day, the newspapers told us of the
distressed circumstances of one of these Monopol¬
ists who had to sell one of bis coavs for $6,000:
how many more he may be forced to sell at that
price, the papers did not state.
(This six-thousand-dollar cow is said to ho
the lineal descendant of the mother of the Golden
Calf, told about in the Bible.)
Congress must declare war before the Presi¬
dent can legally send our soldiers against any
nation: so says the U. S. Constitution which
Professor Wlison twice swore to support.
(Evidently he is now triggering for a third
swear at that oath.)
Congress did not declare war against Russia.
As everyone knows, the Russian armies saved
France in the first rush of 1914: four million Rus¬
sians fought and died for France and Servia and
England, during those long, long months when
Professor Wilson was too proud to fight.
But when the Professor—who “kept us out of
war”—loaded the U. S. Navy with himself and
his battalions of expert men, and expert women,
and crossed over to gay. wine-drinking France, he
ordered troops into Russia, to slaughter Russians.
In New York, six young Russians, one of them
a girl, Avere arrested, tried, convicted, and sen¬
tenced to 20 years in the penitentiary. (15 years
for the girl) because they circulated a handbill
protesting against the illegal use of the American
army in Russia!
The prosecuting officer was Judge Clayton, an
Alabamian, who presided at the “trial,” and who
gave vent to a malevolent temper that has never
been matched since Judge Jeffreys rode the
Bloody Assize in
The newspapers announce, that the Govern¬
ment virtually admits that our army never had
any legal right to make war upon the Russians :
consequently, Judge Clayton sentenced those five
young men and that girl, for doing what the Gov¬
ernment, itself is now doing. ■
In like manner, President Wilson,—since he
bee, \ in Europe-sent our troops to Asia
Mmor ' whe r « diey have united with the Greeks
and the British . in making war upon the Turks?, at
Smyrna.
ll lk,
legal right to
o: our conscripts in Asia?
He had not.
He did it because “the Peoples are in the
Saddle."
One sAvoll-headed Professor is not in the sad¬
dle; one Egomaniac is not developing into a des¬
potic usurper who throws the Kaiser into the
shade; one Autocrat whose conceit has grown into
colossal proportions has not been flattered and fed
on the ambrosia of foreign adulation, until his
poor old head is turned— no!
That’s not it: the explanation of everything is,
that “the Peoples are in the Saddle.”
The Embargo on cotton has almost maddened
the South: the unsettled condition of labor and
business keeps everybody up in the air: the Gov¬
ernment is running, on, from one blind, don’t
care extravagance to another; Bernard Baruch
and his pals are again working vast speculations
hosed on secret knowledge of the secret treaty;
the President is spinning out, from week to week,
and from month to month, his delightful sojourn
in the most delightful city in the Avorld—and all
of this is, not because One Man wants it so. but be¬
cause “the Peoples are in the Saddle.”
For the first time since 1884, there is to be a
general meeting of the entire official family of the
Roman Catholic Hierarchy, in this country.
Washington is to be the place for the meeting, and
you can do a lot of thinking, when you read this.
September 24 is the date, and while you are think¬
ing, remember also that next year is a presidential
year.
Also, we may as well make ready for another
litle scrap or two in the South American section.
Costa Rica is entertaining—unwillingly,— a boat
load or two of American Marines, though Secre¬
tary Daniels has not yet been informed of the
reason for the landing.
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