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Woman and Popery Mysterious Obstructionists 'The,highest and holiest rights of woman do not de- ROME'S DECLARATION OF An elaborate report recently issued by the Masonic pend oil her being the wife or mother of somebody. Those OTrrfsa AT5eirvn frmtnina rrmrli ihni oil ii-vn- relations confer their rights as well as responsibilities; members of that fraternity or not, might read and ponder but the first and fundamental right of woman to fair WAR FREEMASONRY with profit. Special attention is due to its " Conclusions, ' -- self-governme- ON. treatment, righteous, regard, and participation in in which the reaso'n why organized war-reli- ef work by the is because of the fact, now seldom disputed, Freemasons of America was thwarted, is stated as fol that she is a human bemg. Papal Document Uttered from the Throne Which Makes It the Re- lows: rights : Woman's are derived from human rights. The ligious Duty of Every Roman Catholic to Fight Freemasonry by The conclusion drawn by your mission Is that the Masonic richts of man mean the riffhts of mankind t nnd-- wnman. efforts to engage independently in overseas 4 o o j v relief work were not --only it- All Its is the mother of mankind she is mankind . Opposing Undertakings and Endeavors The Real Reason self. It has taken weary centuries of sacrifice to gain rec- What these influences are is unknown to us. Conclusions on this for Hostility Revealed More Friend- J 13 aJa J JI 3 M . . .i . ognition of those facts and concession of the privileges that and Recent Pretense to poirn,"a oi laenuiy, aeaucea irom mo lacts set iortn m tnis our report, can be drawn at wiU by our readers. mey imply. ship and Good-Wi- ll Discounted ml. ji . i i . xne same civuizauon, mac eniignieneai i i mei, race oy The astounding facts, briefly stated, arc that, while painful experience and intellectual response to material HATEVER may be the readers' convictions sons) endeavor to bring about this result namely. the national organization for Masonic war-reli- ef work Cath-gener- al was needs, has progressively removed the old limitations that and scruples concerning secret societies in , that the office and authority of the (Roman approved and officially endorsed on April 23, 1918, s once bound woman as a mere chattel . And that enlarge- or the Masonic order in particular, olic) church may become of no account in the state: further progress was delayed and permission finally de-- he will undoubtedly think more of Masonry , and for this same reason they ment of woman's freedom is cause for rejoicing. "Woman declare to the people nied seven months later, even after signing of the armis- and less of popery when he considers the bitter war and contend that church and state ought to be al tice. is about to stand side by side with male humanity in solv- fare waged so long by the former upon the latter, together disunited." ing their common problems and securing their commQn and especially when he discovers the real and Adding the accumulated indictments together, Why nearly two million members of the Masonic or-- , welfare. avowed reasons given by a recent pope for that re-- wo sum them upi as follows: that tho Masons believe uer were ueniea a privilege, once granted, to participate There is but one notable organization on earth that lentless opposition. in a reason for their faith; that they deny the in relief work; and why more than one hundred thousand denies woman upon On April 20, 1884, Pope Leo XIII issued a Bull Tightness or adequacy of papal or priestly author- soldiers of that craft had to foreiro her reasonable rights and insists re Ro- the fraternal atten against Freemasonry, or Encyclical Letter, to ity to dictate concerning faith and human conduct ; tion and garding her as the mere adjunct and appanage of a mas- man Catholics throughout tho world, in which he and that they believe in the separation of church comforts they deserved as well as desired, is in- culine master It is the same organization that reacts denounced Freemasonry as a "sect," a false re- and state. deed mystifying to all save those who know something against human progress in general the Roman Catholic ligion, and as the very fountain of all the ills beset- Pope Leo is surely compiling a pretty strong about the sacred cow that has horned into everything per- so-call- ed church which had its beginning in barbarism, ting society. On that assumption, and with a long case against the Masons; for they arc convicted of taining to war work with disposition alleged wick- flourished at the moral midnight of the dark ages, and so list of specious reasons based upon the belief in religious freedom, in popular government, to keep others out. edness of Masons, he orders all his subjects to and in that provision of tho constitu-- . distrusts modern progress as to make the dead past its United States There be stand aloof from the order because the whole prin- tion which separates church and state so each may may a time when all this can bo discussed pattern. and object of being is vicious ciple its "lies in what . bo free from dictation and' interference by the other. with the frankness its importance warrants. In the mean-- and criminal." be fol- r mp. nun vm o mo nnoet rrm, The spirit of true Christianity moves together with But there is yet more, as may seen t from the Rnnmn smmro the spirit of progress to emancipate woman; but the spirit That papal monarch also orders his clerical lowing : ity from review and comment, interested members of tho of is its chief impediment. Women vet are silent agents, the bishops and priests, to attack the order order may exercise the TorervJL W X. undeniable J V in sermons and pastoral letters; and declares, "Let The Pope's "Civil Princedom" privilege of examining hy t.b ft rpnnrr. n? th m those miscalled churches which are dominated by a J-- Y no man think that he may for any reason whatso- "But against the Apostolic See and the Roman x vuuuuiauivu. J 1 11 nicy LLiixy , in ed so doing, and old women of the masculine sex. ever join the Masonic sect if he values his Catholic pontiff the contention of these (Masonic) enemies arrive at a yet clearer conception of that secret And they would be kept silent everywhere if the male name and his eternal salvation as ho ought to value has been for a long time directed. The pontiff was opposiuon anu nostue innuence it they will note what priests of a male pope could have their way about it. But them." first, for specious reasons, thrust out from tho bul- Pope Leo XIII decreed, and is to be seen on page 101 of woman is winning against organized opposition because It is imagined by many, but without any ade- wark of his liberty and of his right, the civil prince- the Great Encyclical Letters which are published by Ben-- quate reason, that papal opposition to Freemasonry dom:" etc. etc. - the of the times is her ally. The one thing iJ-Vl- J wtl. ' spirit faithful is based on a broad and inclusive condemnation of J f X . WVJO 1J1Hj kJUr. she needs is conception of her enemy who would Tliis has reference to tho revolt of tho Italian Read the following from a clear all secret societies that the secrecy of the Masonic people by which they dispciscd of the popo much as the pen of Rome's "most illus- pope : deny her the right to a voice in the laws she must obey, craft, and of others specifically mentioned, is suff- later generations disposed, of the Prussian kaiser. trious" of recent times and who moves with all its authority and influences to de- icient in itself to condemn one and all. But that Previous to that the popes were in fact civil, as well Therefore, whatsoever the "Rmn.in ntiff theory and pretense falls before the fact that Rome Of grade womanhood by. perpetuation of restrictions im- as uncivil, princes ; but tho progressive elements decreed for the purpose of opposing the undertakings and endeavors half-civiliz- has its own secret societies, too numerous to men- tho Repub- of the posed centuries ago by ed or uncivilized mascu- Italy, possibly and probably inspired by Masonic sect, and whatsoever they have enacted to deter or tion, which exist with papal approval and prosper Ma- line masters. lican spirit and progressive teachings of such withdraw men from societies of this kind, we ratify and confirm it all by utilizing tho blessings and other endorsements sons as our own George Washington, dethroned pop- by our apostolic authority: and, trusting greatly to thc good-wi- ll of' The Menace purposes to publish a Woman's Edi- showered upon them by popes. ery from political rulership of Italy, and left we its its wuriMians, pray ana fteseecn eacn one, for the sake of his eternal-salvati-on, tion on the third day of next May to advise women ir gen- Indeed, Pope Leo includes in his tirade against disgruntled lomnanU marooned in the Vatican to to be-mo- st conscientiously"' careful not in the least to depart eral, and women of the Roman Catholic faith in particu- Masons a special approval of his own papist frater- plot for reinstatement while they howl about the from what the apostolic sec has commanded in this matter. lar, why they should shake themselves free from the re- nity called the Third Order of St. Francis. And it wickedness of all who truly practice, as well as pro- -' is a matter of common knowledge the Knights fess belief in, democracy. It is therefore the religrious dutv of Roman Cathnlipa to gain deserved that lmrlprtnlrinora strictions of papal domination in order of Columbus, composed wholly of papists, has its to onDORf! tbfl nnA nnAanrmva nvL,.i. and to be capable of The opinions of tho Masons aro productive of i r v.uw wiuvu vio ui nudii men liberty' opportunity what they are secret ritual, signs, passwords and paraphernalia, bitter fruit for such autocratic pretenders to civil pope calls the Masonic sect. It is not difficult, in the light ' to say nothing se- being. of its secret meetings and other princedom as the popes. If tho popes rail at such ua iuau cuuui-iiiuaiio- 10 una wnat innuence is hostile to 418 informa-ti6- n crets beyond tho scrutiny of "heretics." ' simultaneously rejoice. , Menace Number will contain a mass of opinions all others may The Masonic relief of overseas soldiers and mirfit be emppterl concerning popery, its treatment of women, and its Not Because indictment now reads : Masons aro for religious to oppose, either of Secrecy of openly or secretly, the patriotic efforts antagonism toward woman's reasonable rights as free cit- ; freedom; for popular government; for separation Secrecy is not the real opposi- church and and for the overthrow of czars, iicumaaujis 10 put iortn in oenait ot world, Intelli- reason for papal state; uiea their soldier izens of a free country in an enlightened tion to Freemasonry; for the papal system has kaisers and popes. How awfully avyful and utterly boys fighting with the colors in Europe. gent women will want to read that number, and all others many secret orders of its own which are fostered ' utter!

11 1 t. AV V VUW V-f- ' and promoted publicly as well as privately by tho 'UU J AUt UiUJ Jill UUU UUVU ' ) P But don't imagine that Popo Leo was joshing Money for the Pope v If women are once made to realize the true nature popes and their clergy. The real reason has to bo or joking about all this: he is as solemnly earnest . 1 Avirl ATTi I TMlimAPrt T TkATfltI T M CiXT YKT1 I I ri 1 CTrve A fT sOTTsOVi sought elsewhere. In that connection it is instruct- as a musical tomcat when the latter mounts a wall The general suspicion, duriiisr tho war. tviiU. v 11 uui uuoo iuvj J.J.J. uiouwou awIf v that mmw. t ui ive to consider the following paragraph from tho midnight to serenade sleepers his woeful aDoi-ishe- d at with hoarded for centuries in the Vatican coffers, waft financing more promptly man tneir masculine ieiiow citizens said Encyclical : arrangements bundles of to the cold and indifferent moon. the Ilun war budgets, was often connected with the pre- kaiscrism. Make for your "There are several organized bodies which. Tho essential outstanding and outspoken differ diction that a world-wid- e would be Number 418 and see that they are placed where they will though differing in name, in ceremonial, in form :'enco appeal sounded after between the Masonic fraternity and the papal tho war tor tunds to replenish do the most good. j and origin, are nevertheless so bound togetlior by system is that the former faces front with its eyes the papal treasury which' community of purpose and by the similarity of their on the future, while the latter reacts rearward with papists would say had been depleted by charity. That mam opinions, as to make m fact one thing with longings fjr departed glory. The papacy, under prediction is being fulfilled. Petition Against Papal Irish tho sect of Freemasons, which is a kind of centre Patriots , Leo, as under the administration of his successors, Papal-Iris- h diocesan orcans of enthroned r.nrrtinfll whence they all go forth, and whither they all re- be- is unable to say how many loyal citizens would reverse tho wheels of progress in hope of and bishops pause long This paper turn. Now these no longer show a desire to remain ing carried back to tho time when popes set up and enough between yells for the Sinn are protesting to the department of justice at Washington concealed ; for they hold their meetings in the day- .: deposed princes that were responsible to the papacy Fein to call upon the people in lengthy editorials for against the open and notorious sedition oi; papal-Iris- h in light and before the public eye, and publish their yflnd irresponsible to the people. money to refill the mysterious treasury of the sovereign our country, but we happen to know that a group of in- own newspaper organs; and yet, when thoroughly pontiff. Why not open that treasury to an understood, they are found still to the Modern Progress Dreaded exhaustive patriots in the vicinity Philadelphia recently retain nature Dy telligent oi and the habits of secret societies." audit scientinc accountants who are tree from papal Nothing is so distasteful to papal tradition and 1 , signed the following timely remonstrance which was control Before asking the public to pour huge sums Thus are included in tho papal condemnation all dreams of rehabilitation as the move- - into : its forward mailed to the office of the attorney general Odd-Fellow- s, the papal vaults, full information should bo the fraternal societies of like nature, such as ,. "incut of civilization to greater personal freedom and honestly giv- TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Knights of Pythias, etc. which havo also the perfection of societies, political, social, secret, en as to what was done with the hundreds of millions "Washington, D. C. been specifically condemned by name at other times; semi-secr- or public, which havo greater faith in gathered into those vaults annually for more than a thou- but it is amusing to note in the foregoing Leo one-ma- n An event of great national significance has recently occurred, that mankind than in any kind of authority, sand years. finds fault with the Masons because they longer - which appears to be a part of a large movement to embroil this na- "no The following bit from Leo s lamentation is also u- show a desire to remain concealed." Their public- - t While Bolo Pasha was getting vast sums of money tion in war with the government of Great Britain and Ireland. We luminating: ity is as grievous as their secrecy; they .even pub- in Germany by virtue of a letter of believe this to bo a serious matter involving the loyalty of our Ameri- "If those who arc admitted as members (to recommendation from lish their own newspaper organs ; hold meetings by Pope can citizenship. membership) are not commanded to abjure by Benedict XV, and was using it in France in the daylight and in public ; and do divers things openly Wo refer to a meeting held in the city of Philadelphia on Sun- any form of words the Catholic doctrines, this onus' treason for which he, was later hanged, and while he was as weU as covertly without permission of popedom. day, February 23, 1919, under the auspices of the Koman Catholic sion, so far from being adverse to the designs of tho paying large portions of it to Sir Roger Casement to hierarchy. This pompous ukase of Pope Leo's resembles ; Freemasons, is more useful to their purposes." finance the treason for which he was like documents from that source in the amount of later hanged, what At that meeting there were many things said that should receive This is a sufficient admission that tho hated fra- was the papal treasury itself doing? That is a perfectly the attention of our government officials. We beg to call attention to verbiage required to express its conclusions. There ternity docs not require Roman Catholics to repudi- is straw-stac- k legitimate the following facts and principles that form the basis of this complaint a veritable to be threshed to get at the ate their religious faith upon joining the order, question of transcendent importance to the to our government. kernel ; but one conclusion is stated with remarkablo Freemasonry is not opposed to tho Roman Catholic whole world. Why not let the world have a full and hon- First This meeting declared that a state of war already exists brevity and directness in the following words': "The rciigion. and the pope virtually admits it, though est report by experts as to the facts? , Masonic to be between England and Ireland. federation is judged not so much by he and succesSor3 eternally harp on the unfounded - Not content with taking a collection in all Roman Second called upon our government and upon President he things which it has done, or brought to complc- misleading assertion is arch- - It and that tho order tho Catholic churches 9 to Wilson to recognize the Sinn Fein Roman Catholic rebellion in Ire- lion, as Dy me sum oi lis pronounced opinions." ij enemy of religion. March restore the riches that have land, as the republic of Ireland. so mysteriously fled from the Vatican coffers, papal men- "Pronounced Opinions" The Bugbear, . Leo is also peeved at the liberality of Free Third It secured subscriptions of $1,500,000 which is part of a masons in their opinions concerning education, dicants resort to their customary methods of holding up great fund to bo raised from American citizens to help this Roman We arrive by this clear-cu- t statement at the cu- - for that purpose the Protestants against whom the Holy mutative information that freemasonry not con-- Catholic rebellion in its effort to destroy the English government is school;, is another grimnce uttered in the following See has hurled incessant curses' four hundred believe these facts are the outward signs of the situation years. How We that much does is fraught with peril to our country, and that it is high time for the money the Vatican give to Protestant church e teaching of morality which alone finds at of to investigate this movement and to determine church, but because of its pronounced opinions.!,' buildings and enterprises ? How much do lesser Department Justice scct freemasons, and Roman government is responsible for the disloyal utterances those opinions are, let permit the pope to i hef m which they whether our and 7"? youth bo prelates give? How much do wealthy Roman Catholic ? should instructed, is that acts of this portion of our citizenship. . enumerate in his own words. For instance: 1 a vmon m xra ? Mmwinq lnmln 1 wmcn uiey cut civil, buu uiuepenaeni, ana this country we believe we rights -"- -VW m bllmv " nf , , 1 As citizens of are within our in "f " ""lb-- .v.ihiuu . ...1 I. J i i ' umfc w,ucu uwa um couuun wrord to wise be sufficient. asking your department to do what it is not possible for us as private or truth which cannot be understood by tho human f r?e ; V anr A the should Let men and llgl2H9 citizens to do. Wo, are forwarding this communication as individuals, nor any teacher who ought to be be- - Dilicr' women of sense give their benevolences to treasuries you we a lieved by reason of bis authority." ; r rranasons crown ineir "evil" opinions but we wish to assure that represent large constituency of i whose books are on the table and open to public inspec How sad to think of society i 1U.1, 4V r yuuuc BCUOOi. 08 11 C3Usl3 loyal American citizens. it is a which insists ,T . . tion. Respectfully, upon a reason for the faith, it honors and which m J V ar, r A m refuses to believe whatever is commanded by some mch matt to suit ILs Latin Majesty. And they (Then follow a number of signatures.) credibly informed authority. It is evident that the r? Hther too American in their "pronounced Wo are that a member of a certain Masonic The Menace believes the citizens who signed this pe- Masons do not believe that nones "stand in" opinions concerning fundamental politics. Leo lodge in Philadelphia recently sent out notices to thc members to' at tition were acting clearly within their rights when doing place of God Almighty on this earth." That is one 6ay,s ra ie Jlasona arc Philosophical Naturalists, tend a St. Patrick's Day celebration under auspices of the lodge. an.u pnuosopny wrongly mam Tickets of admittance had been issued when the lodge secretary so, and that it is the duty of all good citizens to direct at- of the pronounced opinions that naturally grieves UT issued tmna . ticket-holder- the pretentions of tho papal authority it repudiatcsA thc followuiS contentions: . a card to the s asking for return of the tickets and calling tention of the Department of Justice to the seditious con- ' Jt UrtllCr: - wwwwwwwwwwvywvvWMWwv off the meeting because "such a meeting does not belong to Masonry,' papal-Iris- h duct of these in many of our cities. 'By a long and persevering labor, they Ma-- A - (the (Continued On Pag 3, Column 2) should as much more. . 1 we think and