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Truth and Light

CONTENTS

Dynamic Possibilities

Sane Protest by Protestants

Catholics and the Public School

School Amendment Fails

Bigotry in Iowa

Protestant Fronts

Bar Non-Christians From Voting

School Fight in Oregon

C. A. WINDLE, Editor

Entered as second class January 31, 1922 at the postoffice at

Chicago, 111., under act of March 3, 1879.

Published Monthly by the Iconoclast Pub. Co.

611-189 W. Madison St., Chicago

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Vol. II JULY, 1922 No. 6

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“Dynamic Possibilities”

Enemies of the Catholic Church in America have issued a

new declaration of war and are about to launch an intensive
campaign to convince non-Catholics that Rome is a deadly
menace to our country.

The first division of the anti-Catholic army will be composed

of 120,000 Protestant clergymen. Each preacher will be asked

to organize and conduct local crusades against the “Romanist

evil,” until “Popery” is utterly and eternally discredited in

every community.

The central organization is known as “The Evangelical
Protestant Society.” It will undertake to mobilize all Prot-

estants under one banner and conduct a nation-wide “cam-

paign of education,” to the end that fraternal relations between

Catholics and Protestants may be destroyed. In the smiling
fields of amity they propose to sow seeds of bitterness, sus-

picion and hatred. Following the general scheme employed

so effectively by the Drys, they will employ a large number

of agitators, organizers and lecturers. As these workers of

mischief will be well paid they are sure to keep busy.

According to its promoters, this “movement has dynamic

possibilities.”

Its possibilities are not only dynamic but damnable.

Its possibilities may be judged by the recent history of
Ulster.

Stripped of every pretense and camouflage, the intent and

object of its promoters is to Ulsterize the United States.

It is not within the power of the Catholic Church, fighting

alone, to prevent the consummation of this infernal plot.

The non-Catholic must be reached. He must be convinced
of the fraudulent character of the so-called evidence upon

which her enemies hope to convict, discredit and destroy

Catholicism in America. His sense of fairplay must be

aroused. The appeal must be addressed to his reason and

love of liberty. If the non-Catholic cannot be aroused, can-

not be induced to resist the forces of bigotry, America is cer-

tain to be Ulsterized and religious liberty become a thing of

the past.

Catholics in Ulster are outnumbered four to one. This is

about the same ratio of Catholics to Protestants in America.

This preponderance makes it possible to create a “bandwagon

situation.” Few like to fight with the minority. This is

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especially true of most politicians, editors and business men.

My fight against bigots, and for equal rights of every citizen
without regard to his religious convictions, has cost me many

a pretty dollar and frequently slammed the door of oppor-

tunity in my face. Having fought for principle, without
ulterior motives or hope of gain, I have refused to let such

things dull my sword or turn the point of my lance. Aside
from a noble band of loyal friends—Catholic and non-Catholic
—I have fought practically alone. Very few members of the
Catholic Hierarchy in America even know that I exist.

But knowing what Ulsterization of America would mean,

I must continue to fight—not merely for the rights of Catho-
lics—but for Liberty—for the Republic of Jefferson and Lin-
coln—for American ideals. Realizing the “dynamic possi-
bilities” of a movement designed to enlist 30,000,000 Prot-

estants in a religious war against fellow citizens of another

creed, I cannot remain silent or indifferent.

That all my * readers may know what Ulsterization of
America means I want to remind them that two years ago

more than 8,000 Catholic workers lost their jobs at the Belfast

shipyards on account of their religion.

During the last two years more than 22,000 Catholics were

driven from their homes by mobs made insane by religious

prejudice as preached by professional agitators.

There were 425 killed by bombs and bullets and 1,764

wounded.

These figures are not for all Ireland, but for Ulster. They

read like a bloody page from the records of barbarism.

The fact that Catholics are outnumbered by Protestants four

to one is proof that these assaults upon the lives and property

rights of the former were unprovoked.

After years of organization and agitation (openly and in

secret societies) Ulster bigots are putting their principles into

practise—translating their words into bombs and bullets.
Before this became possible it was necessary to turn back-

ward the dial of progress at least 200 years.

This is one of the “dynamic possibilities” of the anti-

Catholic crusade in America. The same cause will produce
identical results, regardless of the age or country in which it

operates.

The history of the great world war shows how easily human
beings slip en masse from the pedestal of civilization into the

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The men who organized the “Evangelical Protestant So-
ciety,” the men who support it with their money, whether
secretly or openly, believe and teach the same lies that in-

spired Belfast Protestants to deny Catholic workers the right

to earn a living for their wives and children in their native

city.

The leaders of this crusade in America are moved by the

same prejudice that drove 22,560 people from their own homes
into the streets of Belfast to face bullets from the guns of

hidden snipers and fly to the fields and woods for protection.

The hatred that murdered nearly 500 Catholics of Ulster may
be seen in nearly every word either spoken or written by these

American bigots.

That our readers may fully understand the scope, spirit and
intent of this un-American movement of “dynamic possibili-

ties,” I submit the following article from the New York World
of July 14

:

“A programme of action and a form of membership pledge will be
made public today and a nation-wide membership campaign will be
officially opened by the Evangelical Protestant Society—an anti-Papal
body which has been organized quietly during the past six months.

“It has the co-operation of such well known clergymen as Dr Robert
Stuart MacArthur, president of the Baptist World Alliance; Bishop
William Burt, of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Buffalo; Dr.

David James Burrell, in whose study at the Marble Collegiate Church

the first organization meeting was held last December; Dr. John Roach

Straton, of Calvary Baptist Church; the Rev. Edwin D. Bailey, of the

Prospect Heights Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, who is announced
as major author of the new society’s constitution, and the Rev. Oscar
M. Voorhees, general secretary of the Phi Beta Kappa.

“The president of the society is a business man, well known for his
evangelistic inclinations—Edward C. Miller, president of the Magnolia
Metal Company of No. 115 Bank street. The society aims to include
in its membership the 120,000 Protestant clergymen of the United

States and many times that number of laity.

Calls Papacy Political.

“In an interview obtained by The World yesterday, Mr. Miller .said:
‘The movement, now in its inception, has dynamic possibilities. We
intend to form an extensive and permanent organization to light the

Romanist evil. This is probably the biggest movement since the days
of Martin Luther.

“‘We wish to make it clear that we are not hostile to Roman
Catholics as individual churchmen. We believe there are thousands of
noble Christians in the Catholic Church. To them it is a great spiritual
body. But to the Pope and his hierarchy it is only a political

organization.
“
‘Yes, I know that the Pope does not claim to be a political ruler;

nevertheless, that is exactly what he is. At this moment Papal
Nuncio Bonzano at Washington is bending every effort to bring about



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an exchange of Ambassadors between the United States and the Vati-

can. That is political and not religious.
“
‘What this organization proposes to do is to establish a research

bureau to examine every charge against the Papacy.

Says Fight Will Be Open.
“
‘Then the results of such research will be presented to our Execu-

tive Committee, and that committee will formulate plans to meet each

emergency by use of the pitiless publicity of mass meetings, the circu-

lation of literature or other means of arousing the public to its peril.
“
‘We will have a press department in charge of an editor, who will

furnish copy to the secular and religious press and to organizations

affiliated with this society throughout the United States. His name

will be announced later.
“
‘We will fight Papal Rome and its hierarchy in its attempt to en-

croach on American institutions; for instance, in its attempt to de-

stroy the American public school sysem in the interest of its parochial

schools, where Papal religious and political teaching is given.

We’ll “Expose” Efforts.

“
‘We will confront its efforts to procure sectarian appropriations.

We will serve notice on politicians that henchmen of the Roman
hierarchy fill a percentage of the public offices out of all proportion

to the percentage of the population. We will combat its use of the
Knight of Columbus, Tammy Hall, the Jesuits and other organizations
to secure the balance of political power in this country for the purposes

of the Papal hierarchy.
“
‘We will expose the efforts of the Catholic hierarchy to create

hostility between Great Britain and the United States in order to pre-

vent close co-operation between the two Protestant countries. We will
oppose any exchange of Ambassadors with the Vatican.’

“The Evangelical Protestant Society will make public today a
pamphlet entitled ‘The E. P. S. Bulletin,’ in which its principles and

methods of operation are explained, for distribution among prospec-
tive members.

What the Members Pledge.

“It contains membership application blanks and a list of member-
ship pledges which include:

“I am willing to pledge myself to use my influence to get a bill
passed in our State Legislature to compel the attendance of every

child at the public schools up to the eighth grade.

“I am willing to use my influence in favor of the Towner-Sterling
Education Bill.

“I am willing to send you prompt information of any new move
in the direction of raids on the City or State Treasury by Papal

agents for sectarian institutions—or utterances against the Eigh-
teenth Amendment or against any other of our laws or institutions.

“I am willing to subscribe for ( ) copies of the Converted
Catholic for distribution among Roman Catholics. This magazine
is written for circulation among Catholics; each member has an
evangelical appeal based on citations from the Catholic Bible.

“I am willing to get my pastor to preach a sermon on ‘Why I
Am a Protestant.’
“The membership fee is $2.50, of which $1 goes to support the under-



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takings of the society, $1 for a subscription to the Protestant and 50

cents for expenses in extending the membership.

From Mr. Miller, president of the organization, we “learn”:

1. That to the Pope and Hierarchy, the Catholic Church

is “only a political organization.”

2. That he is directing the “biggest movement since the

days of Martin Luther.”

3. That the Pope lies when he denies that he is a “political

ruler.”

4. That “all charges against the Papacy are to be exam-

ined,” the Church attacked by “pitiless publicity, of mass

meetings, the circulation of literature, or other means of

arousing the public to its peril.”

5. That a “press department in charge of an editor will

furnish copy to secular and religious journals and to organi-

zations affiliated with the society throughout the United

States.”

6. That politicians will be “served with notice,” which

means threats, dictation, ostracism and intimidation.

7 . That while pretending to be an “-Evangelical Society,”

it is in reality a religio-political party, organized, among other

things, to “combat the Knights of Columbus, Tammany Hall,
the Jesuits,” et al., at the polls.

The pledge that each member must sign shows how thor-
oughly these bigots appreciate the power of the written word.

Each member is pledged to act as circulation agent for “The

Converted Catholic,” one of the vilest and most rabid anti-

Catholic sheets ever published.

One dollar of the membership fee goes to support “The

Protestant,” edited by Judge Gilbert O. Nations, whose im-

pertinent and insulting challenges to debate, addressed to

leading members of the Catholic Hierarchy, have made him

infamous.

There is but one way to fight “This Evangelical Protestant

Society.” Tell the truth about Catholicity, its principles and

mission. Tell the truth about these narrow-minded bigots,

expose their un-American methods and principles
;
confute

their vile and slanderous lies and place the answer in the hands

of the American people before their minds have become hope-

lessly poisoned.

The field is great. Non-Catholics comprise 80 per cent of

our population. Of this number 30,000,000 are avowed Prot-

estants. How to reach the other 50,000,000 is the biggest
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Sane Protest by Protestants

The Protestant Churches of Atlanta, through their com-

mittee on co-operation have taken a position opposed to the

Ku Klux Klan.
This sane protest by Protestants is made through the me-

dium of a published statement. It says, in part

:

“We call on every freeborn Georgian to unite with us
in destroying this secret, masked tyranny which threatens

and strikes in the dark.

“When these threats are made in an effort to force the
members of Atlanta’s Board of Education to dismiss from

our public schools teachers because the teachers happen to

be members of a particular church, it is time for the

members of the churches to take action.

“Can you doubt that democracy and our fellowship are

doomed, if we permit the night-riding mob, the masked

bully and the secret assassin to drive ‘the light’ from

Georgia, enthroning in this State the most evil of all

tyrants, religious intolerance and hate?”

Religious prejudice is indeed a terrible thing. It destroys

good will, and creates an atmosphere of hate and suspicion in

a community or a nation that prevents friendly co-operation

in solving the many local and national problems that need
attention.

Protestants and Catholics can combine on the proposition

of opposing bigotry and intolerance in the knowledge that they

are aiding themselves as well as each other.

People may honestly differ in their views on theology, but
that is no reason for them to hate and distrust each other.

. The road to happiness on this earth is paved with good will

toward one’s fellow men. No man who harbors hate, sus-
picion and prejudice in his breast can be happy. You may
differ with your neighbor in your religious views, but you

should accord him the same right to differ with you that you

claim to differ with him.

True Christian charity calls for tolerance.

The Ku Klux Klan could not thrive today if bigotry and
religious and racial prejudice did not exist in the hearts of

millions of people.

Let us all be protestants against an organization that makes

its main appeal to the baser passions in human nature

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Is the Catholic Church a Menace?

II. Catholics and the Public School.

Anti-Catholic Crusaders never grow weary of repeating the

assertion that Catholics seek the destruction of the public

schools. Upon this general fallacy, the enemies df the re-
ligious schools build their case for compulsory attendance at

the public schools of all children who have not completed the
eighth grade.

These agitators do not stop there, but insist that the very

existence of parochial schools menace the public schools. These

charges are false and absurd.

Catholics established their own schools, not to compete with
or to injure public schools, nor yet for the pleasure of paying

double taxes for educational purposes, but because they con-

sider it a religious duty to see that their children receive a

religious education.

As it is manifestly impossible to teach religion in the public

or secular schools, those whose conscience demands a religious

education for their children have no other recourse than to

establish their own schools.

For this purpose they tax themselves a large sum of money

in addition to the public school taxes which they pay but from

which they derive no benefit.

The very fact that religious schools have existed in this

country since the birth of the Republic, almost a century and

a half ago, without ever interfering with or menacing the pub-

lic school is proof positive that they are not a menace to the

little red school house as their enemies would have us believe.

Great educators, Catholic and non-Catholic alike, lament the

fact that it is impossible to teach religion in the public schools.

They have tried to devise some system which would make it

possible, but have so far utterly failed.

In attempting to arouse antagonism toward the parochial

schools, men like Senator Watson, Judge Nations and Billy

Parker call attention to criticisms of the public schools made

by Catholics. Practically all of these criticisms are based on

opposition to education without moral and religious training.

Catholics do not hate the public schools. They merely

consider the public school curriculum lacking in what they

look upon as an essential part of the work of educating the

youth of the country. Catholics have never advocated the



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jibolition of the public school, nor have they ever stood in the

way of improving the public school system.

In criticising the lack of religious training, Catholics do not

stand alone. Great non-Catholic educators have expressed

identical opinions.

Among these we have room only for a few of the hundreds
available

:

Nobody knows how to reach morality effectually without
religion. Exclude religion from education, and you leave no

foundation upon which to build a moral character.-

—

Charles

W. Eliot, ex-President, Harvard University.

Even among the warmest friends of the public school system

there is an increasing number who are disposed to think that
the American common-school system is mischievously con-

sidered in its neglect of the religious element in man’s nature

;

and a purely secularized education is worse than no educa-

tion at all.

—

Prof. Alexander Johnstone of Princeton Univer-

sity.

The public schools now teach nothing of biblical history or

of Christian truth, and the indispensable task of Christian edu-

cation is falling between Church and State, to be undertaken

by neither. The State has handed religion over to the Church

and the Church has handed education over to the State. Hence

we have in America millions of children growing up without

any religious training whatever—a situation more perilous
than any other with which the republic is now confronted.

—

Dr. Wm. P. Faunce, President, Brown University.

I am really sorry for you people. You are now going home
to your schools with roseate hopes. You believe that your

work will be a blessing, and that the welfare of the country de-

pends upon your work. But I repeat, I am sorry for you.
You cannot educate in the. public schools, because the Word
of God is lacking! Your work simply consists in training the

reason of the children intrusted in your care. The only people'

who know how to educate children are the Lutherans and the
Catholics in their parochial schools.

—

Dr. Stanley Hall, pro-

fessor in Clark University, in an address to National Educa-

tional Association, San Francisco Convention.

I believe in the Public School System. It has been the sal-

vation of democracy, but the private schools and colleges have

been the salvation of the Public Schools. These private in-

stitutions have their place in our educational system. They



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prevent it from becoming autocratic and arbitrary, and encour-

age its growth along new lines.—Philander P. Claxton, United
States Commissioner of Education, 1919.

The greatest bane to the public school system of today is,’
in my judgment, its Godlessness. We have allowed the
moral influences to be crowded out. When I say moral, I
mean morality based upon religion. We have gone too far in
allowing religion to be eliminated from our schools. We can-
not afford to have the faith of our children undermined. If I

were compelled to choose between the two, I would rather

have a child unlearned, but- heartwhole, than to have its head

developed and the heart’s faith destroyed.—Wm.
J.

Bryan.

We see from these quotations that criticism of the lack of
religious training in the public schools does not imply enmity

to the schools themselves. These men are non-Catholics and

each professes staunch friendship for the public schools.

Catholics have as much right to express their opinion of the

public schools as have the rest of us, and they show their sin-

cerity by digging into their pockets and supporting both the

public and the Catholic schools.

Non-Catholics, instead of slandering Catholics for their atti-

tude on the school, ought to be grateful for relieving them 'of

some of the burden of school taxation.

Catholics have frequently been accused of opposing educa-

tion. Bigots find out how many illiterate savages there are in

the wilds of Brazil or some other South American country and

then make unfavorable comparisons between the percentage of

illiterates in “Catholic” Brazil and “Protestant” America.

They completely overlook the fact that Catholics are partly

responsible for the showing in America. They at least are

doing their full share in the matter of education.

Catholics conduct a total of 113 Seminaries with 8,698 stu-

dents, 222 colleges for boys
;
718 academies for girls, and 6,258

parochial schools with 1,852,498 children attending them.

For a Church that is opposed to education, this is quite a

record. The public school systems in practically every state

are admittedly overcrowded and short of teachers. What

would be the condition if the nearly 2,000,000 children in

Catholic schools, not to mention the tens of thousands in

other private schools, had to be taught in the public schools

is best left to the imagination. Undoubtedly school taxes

would go up in leaps and bounds.

Catholic^ are not aiming at the destruction of the public



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schools, but they do protest against the abolition of their own

schools.

By no possible stretch of the imagination can the religious

school where Mary Smith is taught religion along with the

three R’s be a menace to the little red school house where

Willie Jones is taught his A B C’s.
The private schools have existed in friendly competition

with the public schools—to the benefit of both. Competition
prevents stagnation. It inspires both systems to strive to

become better and more efficient. Each occupies a vital place

in the educational world in America as it is today.

The big question to be considered in discussing the right of

the parochial school to exist is that its arbitrary abolition as

proposed in Michigan, Oregon and other states would be a

direct attack upon the freedom of conscience of many of our
citizens. Many parents, Catholic, Lutheran, Dutch Reform
and Adventists, look upon it as a religious obligation to give

their children a religious education. To deny them this right

is to abridge their religious freedom.

This is unthinkable to people who really believe in funda-
mental Americanism.

To change the dual system of education, with private and
public schools existing in friendly competition, under which

America has made such rapid progress and shown such a

splendid development would not only violate the rights of a

great many of our citizens, but would be a dangerous and
idiotic experiment fraught with the gravest menace to the

Republic.

Divorce on the Increase

By Senator Joseph E. Ransdell of Louisiana.

Divorce is the greatest enemy of the home, the base and

foundation of the Republic.

Churches should sink their differences so far as marriage

and divorce are concerned and present a united front against

this evil.

Members of all churches should be taught to observe the

sanctity of marriage, to look upon it as the most sacred and

solemn step a human being can take, to understand that
separation with the right to remarry should never be granted,

that for better or worse, and that God’s blessing is sure to



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follow all who obey His laws on this most important of earthly
matters—the only one which relates directly to the procreation
of children and perpetuation of the race.

We hear every day warnings being uttered against our enor-
mously increasing divorce rate by prominent public men and
women of every denomination and sect. Are such expressions
of alarm impelled by casual or exceptional conditions? Most

emphatically I say that they are fully justified by the condi-

tions prevalent in our land today. Nearly every one who has
given the divorce problem the slightest study admits that it

is one which must be solved, and that promptly. We must
either destroy divorce, or it will destroy us.

In the United States divorce is spreading with alarming

rapidity. It has permeated every walk of life and is prevalent

among every class of people. The total divorce in 1867 was

9,937, or 27 per 100,000 of population. Forty years later, in

1916, there were 112,036 divorces or 112 per 100,000 popula-

tion. Thus, in actual numbers, there were more than eleven

times as many divorces granted in 1916 as in 1867, or, allow-
ing for the increased population, divorce had increased 415 per

cent. To put it another way, in 1857 there was one divorce
for every 3,666 people, while in 1916 there was one for every

895 people.

A comparison of our divorce statistics with those of Japan
shows that in Japan the number decreased from 282 per 100,000

to 100, nearly 200 per cent, in the last 30 years, whereas, in

the United States the number increased in 50 years from 27 to

112 per 100,000, or more than 400 per cent. This is certainly

a comparison favorable to Japan and one of which the United

States can well be ashamed.

If divorces multiply at the same rate in the future as in the

past—and there is every indication that they will increase
faster—then before the middle of this century we will have
annually in the United States 275 divorces per 100,000 popula-

tion, or one for every five marriages. In 1887 there was one

divorce for every 17 marriages; in 1906, one for every 12 mar-

riages
;
in 1916, one for every 9 marriages, and at the same

rate we shall have in 1946 the appalling figure of one divorce

for every five marriages.

Statistics show that countries in which divorce is greatly

restricted or prohibited have larger birth rates and fewer

illegitimate births than those in which divorce was freely per-

mitted. Easy divorce is the sign and the cause of moral

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School Amendment Petition Fails

The proposed amendment to the constitution of the State of

Michigan providing for the practical abolition of parochial and

private schools will not be voted on this fall.

The enemies of the parochial school failed to secure enough

signatures to their petition to place the proposition on the

ballot.

This is a great victory for religious liberty and shows that

educational work done in combatting the school amendment

in Michigan two years ago was effective and lasting.

In 1919 the petition for the school amendment carried thou-

sands of signatures more than necessary to place the amend-

ment on the ballot.

While the anti-Catholic forces were exceptionally active

this year, they found that people were not so easily misled on

the school question. There is a reason.

In 1919 Bishop Gallagher, the Knights of Columbus and the

Liberty Educational League conducted a splendid educational

campaign. Sincere, forceful speakers stated the case for the

parochial school in every town. Literature was prepared and

distributed throughout the state. The people were placed in

possession of the facts. The lies of James Hamilton and Rev.

Forsythe were analyzed and exposed.

More than 900,000 copies of special editions of TRUTH
AND LIGHT were placed in the hands of the voters. We
prepared and published two million leaflets used in the

campaign.

The school amendment was defeated by a vote of two to

one, and now we learn that a second attempt to place the
amendment before the people did not receive sufficient sup-

port to get on the ballot this fall.

This shows the value of proper educational work, and

demonstrates that the people, regardless of creed, will make

the right decision if placed in possession of the facts.

The good work done two years ago in Michigan not only

won the day at that time, but saved the friends of the parochial
school the expense of putting up a fight this year.

The threat to religious liberty in Michigan is by no means

over. The signatures secured previous to July 6th, the day
the petition had to be filed, can still be used to place the school

amendment on the ballot next spring, and the enemies of



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Catholicity have almost eight months in which to secure the

necessary signatures. There is little doubt that in that time

they will secure the number necessary. If the vote is light

this fall, they will have the added advantage of needing less

signatures in the spring than was necessary this summer.

The educational work must go on. Every lie that rears up

its ugly head should be crushed and rendered powerless for

harm. Every misstatement of fact must be answered. Every

misrepresentation must be exposed. A great start has been
made in Michigan against the forces of, bigotry. The good

work must go on, if the ground gained is to be held.

Bigots can be depended upon to keep up their agitation.

Friends of liberty must ever be on the alert to combat their

vicious and un-American propaganda.

Masonry and the Klan

A letter declaring “the Ku Klux Klan an un-Masonic or-
ganization, utterly without Masonic support or sympathy,”

has been sent to all Masonic lodges of the state by Arthur D.

Price, Grand Master of the Massachusetts Grand Lodge.

The letter, made public here Friday, says that as a Grand

Lodge “we would take no interest in this organization, but for

the claim made by its officers and organizers that its member-

ship is largely Masonic and that it has Masonic approval and

support.”

“This statement,” Mr. Prince’s letter continues, “is abso-

lutely false, as the Klan has no connection with, and neither

does it have the support of any Masonic jurisdiction.”

The avowed principles of the Klan, Mr. Prince asserts,

“violate Masonic law at every point, and it would be impos-

sible for me to conceive of a true Mason affiliating with an
organization which advocates taking the law into its

own hands, condemning men and women in secret trials and
imposing the punishment of the whip, the tar bucket or unlaw-

ful banishment.”

The letter, after asking how long it will be “before the law-

abiding people of this Commonwealth visit dire punishment

upon those who forget or- flout the sovereignty of the law,”
concludes with a declaration that no Masonic temple or apart-

ments must be used for the Klan’s purposes.



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Bigotry in Iowa

The present state Treasurer of Iowa is a bigot, with a nar-

row warped brain that makes hint intolerant of all things

Catholic.

The gentleman is W. J. Burbank, and he proves the case
against himself in an insulting letter sent out as an official

document to the voters throughout Iowa.

The letter speaks for itself

:

Revenue Bulletin State House.

Des Moines, Iowa.

January 1, 1922.

Dear Sir:

In the enforcement of the Inheritance Tax Law it comes to light
that we have those among us who do not respect our laws, or wish
to contribute their just share toward the common burden of taxation.

The following case I wish to bring to your attention. About one
year before I came into the State Treasurer’s office a Catholic priest

died, leaving a large estate to his brothers and sisters, he having no

children. All of the property was subject to a tax of 5 per cent. One
brother was also a Priest, and neither the death nor the estate was

reported to any official so that tax could be figured. After I had been

in office about three months one of my men learned of the evasion,
but the true state of affairs was not found out until I had held a court

of investigation in the three different counties where the heirs live. We
could not get the brother Priest into court for the reason that he lives

in the State of Kansas. The courts gave us a lien for inheritance
taxes of $7,000 against good Iowa land and it will have to be paid.

In order to aid the State in the enforcement of its revenue laws

upon all alike, I ask that you report direct to this office the death of

any priest or any other person leaving property subject to such a

tax when the same is hidden and not reported to the proper officers,
and your information will be held strictly confidential.

THERE SEEMS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE OATPI A
PRIEST TAKES OR IN HIS TRAINING THAT TENDS TO
MAKE HIM AT ALL TIMES DISREGARD THE COMMON
LAW REQUIRING HIM TO PAY TRIBUTE TO THE STATE.

Last year there was collected over $600,000.00 in Inheritance taxes,

and it is my intention that no partiality be allowed any person or any
class, and your co-operation will be appreciated while I am on the
firing line looking after the interests of the State in these matters. It

is my desire that the laws be enforced so that the revenues of the State
do not suffer. As the Judge says:

“111 fares the land to hastening ills a prey,

Where laws accumulate and their Teeth decay.”
Yours for Law Enforcement,

W. J. BURBANK,
Treasurer of State..

A copy of the letters reached Father Joseph A. Minch, who



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promptly forwarded a straight from the shoulder communica-

tion to the State Treasurer:

St. Marys, Iowa.

Mr. W. J. Burbank,
Sir:

This morning I received your letter dated Jan. 1st, 1922. I know
nothing about the case mentioned, but, if true, it is an individual case

which must be dealt with on its merits. I resent the cowardly insult

to the Catholic priesthood contained in paragraph four. ONLY IG-
NORANCE OR MALICE OR BOTH could inspire such a dastardly
accusation.

With contempt for your dishonest state of mind, I am,
Yours fearlessly,

JOSEPH A. MINCH.
Father Minch is right. It is quite possible there was a mis-

understanding regarding the payment of the tax. The State

certainly ought to have a system inaugurated by which notices

of deaths of citizens would be reported. Does Burbank mean

to say that the death of the priest was hidden? Was no fu-
neral held, no burial certificate issued, no death certificate

filled out by a doctor? Bosh.

Possibly Burbank is accusing the dead priest of failure to

notify the State Treasurer of his own death. That would in-

deed be a crime worthy of severe condemnation.

The statement that priests take an oath to disregard tax laws

or are taught to disobey the laws, is a ridiculous and asinine

charge, without a single basis in fact or knowledge.

This ignorant and malicious bigot took advantage of his of-

ficial position to carry on a bit of A. P. A. propaganda at a

great cost to the State. We wonder what the people of Iowa
who have had to foot the bill think of their noble Treasurer.

If they don’t hang his hide upon the political fence at an

early date, they fully deserve having an intellectual pollyv/og

as their State Treasurer.

Period of Reaction

By Congressman Harry B. Hawes.

We are in a period of reaction which always follows a great
war. Intolerance and bigotry seem to be developing. Hasty

and intemperate legislation is proposed. • State and Federal

officials are attempting to make laws of their own. Organ-

ized minority groups are driving the legislative and executive

officers into acts of official lawlessness,



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The first ten amendments to the Constitution are virtually

the bill of rights, unanimously adopted by all the states, for

the avowed purpose of preventing oppression by government.

JNext to religion the amendments demand our highest rever-

ence, for, while liberty is the best offspring of democracy,

we must still guard against democracy destroying its choicest

product.

The intolerant is hopeless mentally. As a social unit and as

a citizen he cannot be changed, but we may, by a frank state-
ment of history, law and experience prevent his infection of

the body politic and reduce his evil influence to the minimum.

Toleration has developed with education, enlightment and a

proper understanding of the Christian religion. When we left
paganism we abandoned intolerance and advanced to the
higher grade of a conscience and religion procured and main-

tained by reason and persuasion, leaving the Government only

the proper function of protecting the right of each individual

to pursue, in his way, without interference from the state or

citizen of a state, the fine exercise of personal choice in the

matter of conscience and creed, modified only by the moral

suasion of religious associations.

Bigotry Bumped

Anti-Catholic agitators in Maine made a desperate fight

against the renomination of Governor Percival P. Baxter in

the Republican primary election.

Rev. Tudson P. Marvin, pastor of the Universalist Church

of the Messiah in Portland, was the leader of the bigots.

One of the excuses he gave for his opposition was the gift

of an organ to the Sacred Heart Parish in Portland by the

Governor and his attendance at religious services at the time

the organ was dedicated.

Rev. Marvin also objected to the message of condolence

which Governor Baxter sent to Rome on the occasion of Pope
Benedict’s death.

The school question was injected into the fight, and the

Governor accused of trying to make all schools Catholic after

first helping to destroy the public school system.

The people of Maine expressed their opinion of this kind of

bigoted bunk by piling up a plurality of 20,000 for the

Governor.

People in other states would do well to follow their example

in condemning such bigoted movements.



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Protestant Fronts

Henry Ford’s magazine, the Dearborn Independent, made

much ado about the Gentile fronts which the Jews are sup-

posed to employ in order to disguise their connection with

business houses and political movements.

It remained for some man suffering with anti-Catholitis to
discover a new kind of a “front.”

There “lies” before us, in more ways than one, a circular

that is being widely distributed in the State of Mississippi.

The author is a great discoverer. He has “discovered” that
Catholics employ “Protestant fronts” just as the Jews are

accused of using “Gentile fronts.”

This “discovery” will prove a great boon to anti-Catholic

agitators. It opens an entirely new field for them to browse

over. They endeavor to prove that Catholics control the

public schools, the press, Congress, municipal, state and

national governments.

They usually have difficulty in trying to substantiate their

charges. For instance, they tell us how Catholics control the
American Government, but they have a hard time getting

around the fact that the President is a Mason and a Baptist,

that not a Catholic is in his cabinet, and that Congress itself

is composed of 95 per cent non-Catholics, including more than

300 Masons, and is predominantly Protestant so far as religious

affiliations are concerned.

The discovery of the “Protestant front” idea is a big help

here. Where Catholics do not appear themselves, they hire

Protestant officials and legislators to do the Pope’s bidding.

It’s a great idea, and the A. P. Apes are sure to fall for it like

a ton of bricks.

But to get back to the circular. It is anonymous as those

documents frequently are.

The first paragraph is entitled “Protestant fronts,” and is

interesting in that it shows the methods used by bigots in their

campaign of educating the people into believing their wild

assertions and ridiculous inventions

:

“Protestant Fronts.”

“Just a word in regard to Protestant ‘Fronts.’ Now
tl^at those alien elements who fear the Klan see their

doom, in frantic anticipation of their fate they are em-

ploying pseudo-Protestants to attack the Klan. The Klan



TRUTH AND LIGHT 19

is not a movement, it is a CRUSADE, and these little
spinelsss Protestant “fronts” will be left in the mael-

strom following in our wake. Whenever you see an

article attacking the Klan by a Protestant ‘front’ he has

two objects in view; he has either sold out body and soul

• to the enemy or he is fishing for a political office. It may

be said, without fear of contradiction, that a WEDGE
has been driven in this city and United States as well

between Protestantism and Catholicism and its allies that

cannot be bridged. We have a number of pseudo-Prot-
estants here who, with a Don Quixote valor, like to pose

as exponents of blissful “tolerance” and thus receive the

plaudits of the alien elements. They probably overlook

the fact that the sole and only reason why they are able to
worship as rational Protestants today is because of the

sacrifice made by their ancestors in the days of Wickliff,

Calvin, Luther, Ridley, Latimer, Huss, etc.”

Evidently the Klan intends to create a great disturbance if

it is going to leave maelstroms in its wake.

The idea that the alien elements are the only portions of our

population who appreciate “tolerance” is a peculiar one for

an organization to have that poses as super-American.

If the aliens are the only ones who love tolerance and re-

ligious freedom, what we need in this country is enough aliens

to crowd out un-American natives.

The ancestors of “Protestant fronts” might well have been

Catholics. Few of us can know for sure that none of our
ancestors were Catholic. Liberty loving men among ' both
Catholics and Protestants have made sacrifices for religious

liberty. There have been bigots among both Protestants and

Catholics, and the same is true today. The fact that a Catho-

lic, Lord Baltimore, established the first home for religious

freedom in the world when he colonized Maryland indicates

that the man who wrote this circular has separated himself a
most respectful distance from the truth.

The Puritan Fathers came to America to secure religious

freedom for themselves. They denied it to others. They had

an idea that Christianity, and especially their particular brand

of it, could be imparted by law—by force. They were wrong,
and the people who think Catholicity can be destroyed by per-
secution and Protestantism encouraged by force are also

wrong. True it is that Catholics can be made to suffer; dis-

agreeable situations can be created in communities by stirring



20 TRUTH AND LIGHT

up bigotry; religious rights can be abridged; injustice can be

done to many, but Catholicity can no more be destroyed by

telling lies about it than you can abrogate the law of gravity

by telling people that water runs up hill.

If the Catholic religion is the true religion, nothing can

destroy it. If it is not the true religion, then nothing could

save it. The anti-Catholic crusade can cause unhappiness, but

it cannot accomplish the slightest good in the world. Prot-

estants who attack Catholicity overlook the fact that no Chris-
tian sect could survive the downfall of the Catholic Church.

Another paragraph in the anonymous circular is worthy of

consideration

:

Important : Listen

:

“The population of Mississippi is approximately TWO
MILLION PEOPLE. The census reports show that
there are only Thirty Thousand Roman Catholics and
Four Thousand Jews in Mississippi. Therefore, One
Million Nine Hundred and Sixty-Six Thousand People

are thoroughly capable of running their affairs without

dictation from an insignificant minority.”

This paragraph shows the spirit back of the Klan move-

ment. If the Protestant Anglo-Saxon is so superior to all

other species of the genus homo why should two million of
them fear domination by the “insignificant” minority of 30,000

Catholics and four thousand Jews? The two million might

attempt to oppress the 34,000, and are able to do so if they are

capable of it, but the 34,000 would have to be super men to
dominate the two million.

The people who circulated this leaflet are evidently opposed

to democracy. True democracy gives the members of a

minority equal rights with the members of a majority.

Democracy can recognize no distinction between individuals.

The minority, whether racial or political, must at least be

conceded a voice in their own government.

The Klansmen and anti-Catholics generally charge that

Catholics would take away the rights of Protestants if they

were strong enough, and yet they advocate taking away the

rights of Catholics and Jews. Frequently people fear that

others would do as they would under certain circumstances.

This idea is largely behind the fear of Catholics that lives in

the minds of bigots. They know what they would attempt to

do to Catholics if they had the power, and presume that Catho-

lics would do the same.



TRUTH AND LIGHT 21

The following paragraph expresses the un-American, un

democratic, mean and narrow program of the Klan

:

Practice Klannishness.

‘‘If you have any business to transact, do it with White,

Gentile, Protestant Americans, and no others. Patronize

brother Protestants on all and every occasion, and none

others.”

America is the great melting pot of the world. In it are

fused the best and bravest blood of a hundred races. The one

thing that makes America great is the fact that all have an

equal opportunity. The real American patronizes the busi-

ness man who gives the best value in service or goods for the

money spent, regardless of his race, politics or religion.

Klannishness would tend to keep people of different races

or religions separate and distinct. It would prevent the melt-

ing pot from functioning.

Klannishness should be avoided as a curse, not encouraged

as a blessing.

If this doctrine were widely accepted, it would transform

America into a perfect Bedlam. People would vote for a can-

didate for public office according to race or religion instead

of considering his qualifications. We would ask a merchant
what Church he attends instead of inquiring as to the quality

of the goods he has for sale. A fine America we would have
if these bigots had their way

!

The circular would be incomplete without a slam at Catho-

lics on the school question, so here it is

:

Roman Catholic Teachers in the Public Schools.

“No Roman Catholic should be permitted to teach in the
public schools of this Nation because their church is hostile

to the same, and a person impregnated with the doctrine of

papal supremacy is not a fit person to have over our children.

You women folks see to it that only 100% Protestants are put
in the public schools. WEED OUT THE PAPISTS.”

In the first place, the school teacher occupies a public posi-

tion and discharges a public trust. The Constitution states

that there shall be no religious qualification for such an office.

Any attempt to boycott Catholic teachers is opposed to the
spirit and the letter of the fundamental law of the land.

The position of the Church on the public schools is continu-

ously misrepresented. The Church is not opposed to the

public schools. She looks upon the public school curriculum



22 TRUTH AND LIGHT

as incomplete, lacking as it does the moral and religious train-

ing that she considers so essential to the education of the

youth. Great Protestant educators take the same position.

Bryan, Wilson, and a veritable host of Protestant leaders of.

education condemn the lack of religious training in the schools.

The statement that a Catholic is no fit person to teach
children is idiotic and ridiculous. The Catholic teacher does

not teach Catholicity in the schools, and if she does she should

be discharged. The same is true of the Baptist, Methodist

or Lutheran teachers. If a person has the proper qualifica-

tions for teaching, the question of his religion should not

enter into the matter at all, any more than the religion of a

candidate for public office. True it is that the A. P. Apes also

insist upon the religious qualification for public office, but

this is a principle that every true American must repudiate

and condemn.

TRUTH AND LIGHT is edited by a non-Catholic, a man
whose ancestors came to America long before the Republic

was established, but he cannot remain silent while the sacred

rights and liberties for which his ancestors fought are being

undermined and endangered by groups of self-styled super

Americans, who know less about the principles of true Ameri-

canism than pigs do of higher mathematics.

We can have no equality of rights, if the rights of Catholics
or Jews are abridged. We can have no religious liberty if
Catholics are barred from public office. We can have no real
liberty if the inalienable rights of the individual are not pro-

tected. We can have no true democracy where the minority
is denied a voice in government.

Bigotry is the greatest menace to the American Republic

and the ideals which led our forefathers to establish a govern-

ment of, by and for the people.

We care not where you were born, what Church you belong
to, or what blood courses through your veins, if you would

deny to others the rights you claim for yourself, if you endorse

principles that violate the equality of rights, if you support an

organization that wars upon religious liberty, you are a bigot

and have no more right to call yourself an American than a

pollywog has to refer to himself as a whale.

An amendment to the Constitution denying the rights of
citizenship to every traitor to American principles who seeks

to deny his neighbor every right claimed by himself on account

of race or religion, might be in order.



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No one ought to be a citizen of the Republic who rejects the

fundamental idea upon which it was based—the idea that all
men are created equal in regard to life, liberty and the pursuit

of happiness.

Judge Powell on Bigotry

Judge Arthur G. Powell, president of the Georgia Bar Asso-

ciation delivered a scathing denunciation of bigotry in an

address at the annual convention in Savannah recently. In

part, he said

:

“I am no Roman Catholic. I am a Baptist and my fore-
fathers as far back as I can count them were Baptists. Some

of the family are bold enough to claim that John the Baptist

was named John Powell. I do not know about that, but I do

know that no reason exists for any bias in my mind in favor of
the Catholic religion. But I am an American citizen and know

something of the meaning of the word ‘Liberty’ and when I

see statutes passed in the use of law for the purpose of giving

to some board or officer a discretion by which the Church may

be persecuted I am filled with abhorrence.

“This is supposed to be a land of religious freedom and of

liberty of conscience; yet can you sum the wrongs that would

be done to Jews and to Catholics, even in this very State of

Georgia, if most of their rights were not protected by fixed

laws instead of being left to discretion? And this is true not-
withstanding the large number of useful, upright, honorable,

high-minded citizens found in the membership of those two

sects. However, this spirit of religious persecution is so

foreign to the inherited instincts of our people that the hope

is strong within me that it will soon pass away
;
and I am

bold enough to prophesy that the day will come when the

descendants of Mr. Justice James K. Hines will point with

pride to the dissenting opinion in that case in our Supreme

Court wherein the majority upheld the enforced reading of the

King James version of the Bible in our public schools, as hav-

ing been written by their ancestor—an ancestor of whom they
may well be proud.

“Discretion is the weapon of tyrants
;
and there is no tyranny

like the tyranny of an unrestrained democracy.”



24 TRUTH AND LIGHT

Bar Non-Christians from Citizenship

Charles M. Wood is the name of a near idiot whose habitat
is Brooklyn, and whose mental machinery is clogged, jammed
and flabbergasted by the noble idea of trying to make America
Christian by the passage of sumptuary legislation.

His yellow letter head informs us that he is editor and man-

ager of a publication entitled “The Patriotic American Pa-

triot,” which is devoted to the interest and welfare of Amer-

ican-Americans.

While the ICONOCLAST hates to waste a shell in trying
to hit a mental insect, still the practice might keep us in form

to hit larger game.

Editor Wood sends the following letter with a copy of the
law he wants enacted barring non-Christians from the rights

of citizenship and ownership of property:

“Dear Sir:

“Will you please use ALL your power and influence to have the
following legally framed and made into a LAW, by our United States
Congress, and have other countries to adopt a similar law? If neces-

sary, make it the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution of our
United States. Ninety-one million Christian people in our United

States want this Law, and only 3,000,000 are opposed to it. Rescind

any ‘Religious Freedom Law or Laws’ not consistent with the teach-
ings of Jesus Christ. We shall live or die by our Faith in Jesus Christ.

“Very Respectfully,

“CHARLES M. WOOD.”

The gentleman from Brooklyn has his mental feet crossed

behind his back and his statistics are strange and w^eird. There

are not 91,000,000 Christians in America. Considerably less

than half of the people of the United States are members of

any Church, and unless we are sadly mistaken, a very consid-

erable number of Christians would oppose a law that would

do away with religious freedom.

The bill which this imitation American wants to have en-

acted into a law is worth reading, because it reveals a type of

mind that is rapidly developing in America, a type of mind

that, given the power, would destroy all the blessings of

freedom won for us by the heroism, suffering and sacrifice of

millions of real Americans.

Here is the proposed bill

:

“Be it enacted by Congress of our United States: That on and

after the passage of this BILL, it will be UNLAWFUL, for any per-
son or persons, male or female, white or colored, native or foreign,



TRUTH AND LIGHT 2$

born, to hold any National, State or Municipal Government Office,

either ELECTIVE OR APPOINTIVE, for pay or otherwise; or have
any Voting Franchise whatsoever; or own any Real Estate, or transact
any Business whatsoever; or own any Bonds, Stocks, Securities,
Mortgages, etc.; or to hold any Meeting or Meetings, or Service or

Services whatsoever, not consistent with the Grace of God; or any

Teaching or Teachings, other than the Teachings of JESUS CHRIST;
or enter our United States, from any other Country whatsoever; WHO
ARE NOT FIRM fiELIEVERS IN ALMIGHTY GOD, OUR
HEAVENLY FATHER, AND HIS SON, OUR LORD AND SA-
VIOUR, JESUS CHRIST, and THE CONSTITUTION OF OUR
UNITED STATES.”

“The Penalty for Violation of this Law will be from one to five
years in Prison and Confiscation of ALL their Real Estate and other
Property and Business, in which, he, she or they have any interest

whatsoever. Any Law inconsistent herewith is hereby declared Re-
scinded, and Null and Void.”

Also: “By the passage of this Bill, it AUTOMATICALLY AP-
PLIES RETROACTIVELY to each and every person in our United
States at the time of its passage.”

And this kind of narrow, bigoted, and un-American dope is
handed out by Brother Wood as the quintessence of patriotism
and the ne plus ultra of Americanism.

Ye gods! Upon what mental pabulum has this biped
btowsed that he can submit such a proposition without crack-

ing his lip laughing at himself?

On his letter head he writes

:

“United States for American-Americans.”

Why not practice what you preach, Mr. Wood, and get out
of the United States? You do not belong. The rays of light
from the lamp of Americanism are far too feeble to penetrate

your cast iron dome, and illuminate that thing within which

you flatter by calling a brain.

Y
r
our proposition from first word to last is the antithesis

of Americanism. America gave to religious freedom its first

home in the wide world. Your letter head informs us that

you are “Guided by the Constitution,” and yet the Constitu-

tion specifically states that “no religious test shall ever be re-

quired as a qualification to any office or public trust under the

United States.” Are you guided by that provision?

The first amendment to the Constitution provides that “Con-

gress shall make no law respecting the establishment of re-
ligion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging

the freedom of speech or of the press.”

We would suggest that Mr. Wood take time ofif from his
arduous duty of attacking liberty and devote it to reading the

Constitution. Before attempting to edit the “Patriotic Amer-



26 TRUTH AND LIGHT

ican Patriot,” he ought to have learned what Americanism

means.

He has less conception of the true meaning of Americanism
than a louse has of the mysteries of radio communication.

Under this proposed law Editor Wood would have his prop-
erty confiscated and be subject to imprisonment for. not be-

lieving in those sections of the Constitution concerning relig-

ious liberty.

His attempt to inculcate a retroactive feature in his law

shows that he is an ignoramus as well as a bigot. It would

violate all rules of legislation and automatically place in pris-

on and confiscate the property of a majority of the people of

this country.

. How this ambitious gentleman from Brooklyn has evaded
incarceration in an insane asylum is one of the modern mys-

teries. Many a person has been given free board at Kanka-
kee, Dunning and other resorts for the mentally unfit for

giving vent to ideas a heap more reasonable than the law pro-

posed by this hair-brained reformer.

There is no danger that such a law will be passed, but there

is danger that other laws doing violence to the principle *of

Americanism may be passed through the activities of loud-
mouthed reformers who pose as super-Americans. The Amer-

ican people have frequently shown that they can be fooled by

any propaganda masked in the guise of religion, humanity or

patriotism.

There is less respect in America today for the true princi-

ples of liberty than at any time since the Salem trials for

witchcraft.

Why is it that organizations attacking the fundamental
principles of Americanism invariably pose as super-Ameri-

cans? Look at the Anti-Saloon League, the American Pro-

tective Associations, Guardians of Liberty, True Americans,

the Ku Klux Klan and similar societies. They wave the flag
with one hand and light a bomb under American liberties with

the other. They add to their un-American activities the in-

famy of Hypocrisy.—Braun’s Iconoclast.

There is always plenty of room at the top. One of the rea-

sons is that it is hard to get there.

If you are nursing a grouch, get rid of it. It will never get

you anything but unhappiness.



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School Fight in Oregon

“Down with the parochial school” is the slogan of the anti-
Catholic forces in the State of Oregon.

At the end of a spectacular drive by the combined forces of

the Scottish Rite Masons and anti-Catholic organizations,

sufficient signatures were secured to a petition to place on the

ballot in November an initiative measure to compel children

between the ages of 8 and 16 to attend public schools.

This would automatically close the doors of every private

school in the state to all children who had not completed the

eighth grade, and is the equivalent of direct abolition of the

parochial school.

Only thirteen thousand signatures, or those of ten per cent

of the voters, are required for initiative measures in Oregon,

and three times that many were secured in a single day.

As soon as sufficient signatures were on the petition, the

Scottish Rite Masons accepted responsibility for the campaign.

Robert E. Smith, president of a bank in Portland, who had

active charge of the petition, was also largely responsible for

the attempt made in Michigan two years ago to outlaw Catho-

lic Schools.

Fred L. Gifford, exalted cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, was
also an active leader.

That the Catholics of Oregon have a hard fight on their

hands if they are to preserve the right to give their children

religious education is evident to all who understand the local
situation.

Proponents of. the bill mask their real motives by trying to

make it appear that they consider the public school superior

to the private school and that they merely want to give all

children the equal opportunity of public school education.

The real cause for the fight on the parochial school is the

animosity toward Catholics. Adoption of this measure would

embarass Catholics, close up their schools and deprive them of

the right of obeying the law of their church, which compels

them to provide religious and moral education for their chil-

dren in the Catholic schools.

The fact that every leader and every organization back of

the fight to do away with the parochial schools is anti-Catholic

proves conclusively that enmity toward Catholicism is the real

motive back of this agitation,



28 TRUTH AND LIGHT

Were there no prejudice against Catholics, if the anti-
Catholic crusade did not exist, no movement to do away with

private schools would ever have been inaugurated in any state

in the union.

The citizen who lines up with the opponents of the parochial
school need not fool himself by posing as a friend of the public

school. He is lining up on the side of bigotry, and might as
well recognize that fact first as last.

The anti-parochial school fight is merely a phase of the anti-

Catholic Crusade.

Stand Up for Your Rights

If your rights are worth anything to you, stand up for them.

If you wait for the other fellow to defend your rights and

protect your liberties, you may prepare yourself to lose them.
Any rights worth having are worth fighting for.

Anti-Catholic bigotry in the Southern States has been

aggravated and encouraged by the attitude of Southern Catho-

lics, who, because they are a small minority, didn’t want to

stir up things by answering the lies of their enemies—as if
their enemies needed stirring up.

They overlook the fact that many people have a propensity

for believing evil of their neighbors. Gossip always travels

on faster wings than truth.

Most people accept as true every statement they hear or

read, unless contradicted and proven false. A lie about
people or organizations is just as effective in discrediting them

as if it were true, so long as people believe it be based upon

facts.

Archbishop Michael
J.

Curley, the brilliant and deep think-

ing prelate of Baltimore, calls attention to the danger and

foolishness of adopting a policy of apparent indifference to

serious charges in a splendid address delivered to the Holy

Name Societies.

In part he said

:

“I do not believe in the policy advocated by some to ‘let

sleeping dogs lie.’ If you let men walk on you and on

your rights as American citizens and Catholics, they’ll

walk on you and they’re right. If we always lie low and

wait for the storm to pass, it will never pass.



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“After fighting for seven years for the right to make the

sign of the cross, I am convinced that when you fight
back*, those whom you fight will respect you, and when
you don’t fight they will not. It is time for Catholic

laymen to stand together, or, even though 20,000,000

strong, they will be swept off the map. We have had
experience in this country with the power of well-organ-

ized minorities.”

This is sound advice. No man whose reputation is worth
anything to him could permit slanderous references about

himself to go unchallenged. People believe charges made

against a bank or a business, if the slandered parties remained

silent. So it is with attacks made upon Catholics.

Lies, like counterfeit coins, will be accepted at face value

by most people, unless challenged.

Newspaper Harvests

By Will W. Whalen

Publicity is a very necessary evil. If you don’t think so,

become a Rupert Hughes, a Jeritza, a Lou Tellegen or sum-

thin’ odd like that, and see. Every time your name gets in

the papers, your box office value waxes. Every time your pic-

ture appears, jingle goes your cash register. But there’s a

limit in all good lines.

Two Virginia ladies have enjoyed much publicity lately

—

Nanny Langhorne Astor and Peggy Hopkins Joyce. Peggy’s

notorious. The more that find it out, the merrier for Peggy.

Nanny’s at times silly and frequently stands too far up stage,

hugging a big spotlight. “What a loss if I’d been kept from

the public !” she declared modestly. Nanny even preached,

and told those foolish Cawtholics they’re only tolerated in the

U. S. A.—a land she forsook long ago, which by miracle sur-
vived hei* departure. In England much of the adverse criti-

cism she suffered here was copied in the London papers. That

was horrid printer’s ink in her morning tea. The joyful going

abroad brought a somewhat sorrowful coming back. Her

children sent her a message : “Lady Bug, fly away home
!”

Nanny’s clever, but she’s not the 20th century unlimited mir-

acle she fancies she is. She condemned our divorce laws as

too, too easy; and one of the easiest divorces ever granted



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was her own from Mr. Shaw, the first Mr. Nanny. Lots of
Nanny’s statements couldn’t face the microscope, but she

stole pages of publicity with ’em, so she should worry, the

deah thing. She’s living under two flags, or rather dwells

under one and is supported by the other. She has rawther

a gay time of h’it in old Lunnon town, with her money sailing

over the sea from her Virginia and New York real estate.
Peggy reaps her golden harvests in the divorce courts where

she has been starred thrice. One can’t blame her much for

jack-potting the nuts who marry her. Peggy adores only

one human being, her shallow self, and she is stronger on no-

toriety than publicity. Publicity may be a virgin, but no-
toriety is ever a harridan.

If a male, weary of breath, plugs himself with lead, and

Peggy harks to the shot, she yells : “He has did it for me

!

Oh, why ain’t I married him !” I’d say the suicide had a lucky
escape from bein’ murdered. Peggy didn’t take his name in

life, so she steals his reputation in death, because lots of

women say a man can’t lose his fair fame. Only a woman is
enriched with that gem, and all men are poor indeed

!

Ex-Priest Crowley Cruel

The following item was taken from a Chicago paper. Jere-
miah Crowley, the villain in the play, is the same ex-priest

who has left nothing undone that he thought would tend to
discredit the Catholic Church. The testimony given would

indicate that Crowley has bats in his belfry, which might well

account for his strange lies and fantastic imaginings. Fur-

ther comment is unnecessary:

“In a bill in which he is called a ‘wife beater and a knife thrower,’

Jeremiah J. Crowley, unfrocked priest of Wheaton, has been sued for

divorce by his wife, Marie.

“Mrs. Crowley, daughter of former Congressman Donald McCloud
of Nebraska, charges her husband with cruelty and nonsupport. In

itemizing her allegations she said Crowley had treated her cruelly

and made her life miserable for several years, on one occasion throw-

ing a hatchet at her, on another hurling a knife, which she dodged.

“Attorney John Leedle, retained several weeks ago by Mrs. Crow-

ley, filed the suit in the Wheaton court on June 1, but it was not made

public until yesterday. Attorney Charles E. Erbstein, counsel for Mr.

Crowley, said last night that his client would file an answer within a

few days.

“Crowley, excommunicated several years ago, has since attacked

the Catholic Church from the Chautauqua rostrum.”



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