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"Tie iriyfc Fote" li Micft Discussed by Alien-minded Disgruntled Forces Which Injected Religion Into Political Fight, and Got Fingers Burned, Are Now Threatening What the Irish Will Do
'The Irish vote, which constitutes from 60 to 75 per cent of the Democratic strength in New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey and Ohio, will go largely this year to President Coolidge or to Senator LaFollette, because of the religious issue in the Democratic national convention. This is the view of the three leading Irish-American weeklies, which in their current issues, bitterly denounce the Ku Klux Klan, asserting that it controlled the actions of the Madison Square gathering,' says the New York Herald Tribune.
The Gaelic American, the organ of the Clan-na-Gael, speaks of the convention as "a Ku Klux bossed convention," and predicts that LaFollette is assured of hundreds of votes "as a protest against government by the Invi ie Empire." Equally bitter are the other two weeklies. The Advocate, in a leading editorial entitled "Democratic Party and Catholicism," says that'Catholics and Irishmen "received a rude awakening of how they are appreciated by the Democratic party." A rude awakening certainly. The Irish Roman Catholics have been trying to control and run the Democratic party a long time. They awakened to the fact that some other people have been watching them and can see where they would take the party were they able to get control. Why should these same Romanists howl when some one bests them at this un-American game they have so Ion? been playing. America doesn't ,want any of the political parties tontrolled and bossed by any church organization. The Roman church In real It ? Is not a religious body, but a reat political corporation under the absolute direction of the pope. This corporation is fed and nourished by the money taken from American citizens. To show that the Romanists
would not run this country in the
Interests of the American govern ment lot us quote some of the perti nent official declarations ofthe au
thorities of the Roman Catholic
church. The Famous Bull
Pope Doniface VIII, in his famous
bull "Unam Sanctam," declared:
"In this church and in its power am two swords to wit, a spiritual and a temporal, and this we are taught by the words of the Gospel. Both, therefore, the spiritual
and the material swords are in the
same encyclical Leo de-
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power of the church, the latter in
deed to be used for the church, the
latter by the church, the one by the priest, the other by the hands of kings and soldiers, but by the will and sufferance of the priest. It is
fitting, morcoverr that one sword
should be under the other, and the temporal authority subject to the spiritual power. we moreover proclaim, declare and tiro-
nounce that it is altogether neces
sary for the salvation for every hu
man Deing to be subject to the Roman pontiff."
Pius IX, in his syllabus of 1864.
condemns as an error the proposition that "the church must be separated from the state and the state from the church."
Leo XIII, in his encyclical "On the
Christian Constitution of States," November 1,' 1885, indorses this dec
laration of Pius IX. and in his en
cyclical "On Human Liberty," June
-su, 1888, condemns what he terms "the fatal theory of the right of separation between church and state."
In the clares:
"From what has been said, it follows that it is quite unlawful to demand, to defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, of speech, of writing, or of worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man." Pius IX, in his syllabus of December 8. 1864, on "The State," asserts that the state has not the right of establishing a national church separate from the pope, nor the right to the direction cf public schools. Have these declarations ever been revoked by the Roman Catholic church? If so, we have gained no knowledge thereof. All that we have
read by Roman Catholic writers was merely an attempt either to justify these declarations or to take the edge off them in order to meet attacks from those who maintain that the Romanist, if he be a loyal adherent of his church, its official
leacuings ana principles, is in irreconcilable conflict with the principles set forth in the Constitution of the United States. Says the Herald Tribune: "All three papers are edited by Roman Catholics and devote most of their attacks to the Kn Klux Klan, whose fight, they recall, was successfully led on the convention floor by William Jennings Bryan, brother of the vice-presidential candidate." "The long-hidden, anti-Catholic bigotry of William Jennings Bryan" are the words used by the Irish World, in describing the activities of the Commoner in Madison Square Garden. "Stupid Bigotry" "White the Democratic convention bossed by the Ku Klux Klan," says the Gaelic American, "was wrangling to prevent the nomination of a
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Catholic the only man whose name
was presented who could carry New York a convention of real progressives in Cleveland nominated Senator LaFollette on the Fourth of July on the most progressive platform ever adopted by an American political convention. Up to then LaFollette's chance lay mainly in capturing Republican votes, but the Ku Klux Klan's stupid bigotry in Madison Square Garden assured him of hundreds of thousands of Democratic votes as well, with the very probable result of throwing-Jhe election into .Congress, and -defeating both of the old parties." : Notice a few things that these several articles say. They speak of
Gaelic-American, Clan-na-Gael, Irish-
men. Democrat party, Catholicism, Irish World, etc. America doesn't
need and has no intention of permitting any hyphenates to run this government. The government in
sists that these people shall become Americanized, and then when they become imbued with the ideals and principles of this great country they will be able to help to run the government more intelligently. Who Is it that has raised the religious Issue? The Klan hasn't said anything about anybody not worshiping God according to the dictates of his conscience. So body of citizens believe this principle more firmly than does the Klan. The Roman Catholic corporation demonstrated for years that it is in politics for the power political control will give. The Advocate points out in an editorial that in the Irish Free State, which is 90 per cent Roman Catholic, four of the nine supreme court justices are Protestants, two of them being Masons and a third a member of an Orange lodge. Then 1t adds:
"Here isan example of tolerance on I the part of a distinctly Catholic government that would, no doubt, be
lost on the Ku Klux Klan." In its leading editorial it says: Synonymous Terms "It has been dinned into the ears of Irishmen and Catholics for generations by political propagandists that to be a good Irishman and Catholic you must vote the Democratic ticket. The party and the church, according to these apostles, were synonymous terms. The confiding and less inquisitive believed it, and eventually the great majority In these parts accepted it as a part of their creed and it became a tradition and an inheritance of the younger generation." The above goes to show that the contention of the Klan in regard to this group is correct; that it belongs to a great political organiza
tion and by soft soothing words of toleration, broadmindednessand the like it has soothed the Protestants to sleep. The Protestants have not been aware of what the Romanists were doing. The younger generations have been fanght that the Democratic party and the church were synonymous terms. The propa
gandists were the Romans them
selves. They intended that it should
be so. All this hue and cry as to
why a Roman Catholic shouldn't be made president of the United States has been used editorially by some
of the leading newspapers. They have contended that the religious
question should not be raised when
any American citizen is seeking of
fice, bo say we all, if the citizen
owes his allegiance first to the
Lmted States of America.
1 he convention of the Democratic party, held this week and last in New York, dispelled forever this
illusion," says the Irish World.
Protestants are glad to know that
these parties have found this out "Traditionally Hostile"
"Democrats outside of New York,"
continues the World, "and a few other Irish and Catholic centers are
Luot only not friendly to Catholics,
r,ui traditionally hostile to them personally and in the mass." We would put it this way: Not friendly in the "mass" but friendly to them
personally whenever they decide to owe their allegiance first to
America. On the religious issue The Irish World says: "It has been estimated that over 200 Ku Klux Klan delegates listened to. the speech in which William Jennings Bryan virtually told Democrats of the Catholic faith that for the sake of the Democratic party they must "submit patiently and slavishly to a political ostracism which, in itself, is a repudiation of one of the fundamentals of democracy." If these people were such faithful believers and followers of the
Democratic party they should have been willing to do the right thing to have peace and harmony. It was the Romanists who injected the Klan fight into the convention and it was they who insisted that the Klan should be repudiated by name. Nothing else wonld satisfy their craving for blood. The great trouble with the Xew York Roman Catholics and
Irish Is that they forget that the rest of the country should be considered. If you will recall the election of 1916, a premature celebration was held in New York when the votes from New York had gone to Hughes. But it was the votes from the west that decided the issue. Bryan's "Cowardly Policy" Quoting further from the World: "In other words, Catholic Americans (hyphenates again according to their own writing) who have hitherto cast their ballots for the Democratic party must continue to do so, though that party concurs with William Jennings Bryan's cowardly policy
of conciliating -the good will of the Ku Klux Klan by refraining from denouncing it for making war upon American citizens who were loyal to their religious belief." And we say again that the Romanists have raised the Issue. If they will worship God according ta the dictates of their own conscience, instead of the dictated conscience of the head of the Roman corporation, then all will be well In America and there will be peace and happiness enjoyed by all.
BRENNAN AND DEVER
BACK IN WINDY CITY SADDER, WISER MEN King Makers" Have Not Yet Recovered From Shock Received in New York-
Leaving Chicago as "Higher-Ups" They Return Sadly as Only "Little Potatoes"
Teachers' Wage Too Small
CHICAGO, 111., July 28. Not the least of the many disappointments suffered by Roman Catholic Dem
ocrats at the hands of their Prot
estant American brothers in politics at the New York convention was the way in which George F. Brennan and Mayor William E. Dever were tumbled from the heights of pseudoczarism to political impotency.
This disappointment has a more tangible basis than love and sentiment. It arises" from the fact that Brennan and Dever, heralded as the party's "higher-ups" are now reedgnized, even by their intimates, as "small potatoes" in a big pile. This seriously affects their patronage delivering ability and is a blow to Irish Roman Catholic domination of the Democratic party in Cook county and throughout the state. King Makers Exit These boys thought they were "king makers." Now they know differently, to their surprise and sorrow. One of the victories won by Protestants against the Irish Catholic cohorts at the Democratic national convention was the shattering of Brennan's belief that he was the national "boss" of Democracy, and Mayor Dever's ambition to be vice-
president.
Brennan had been touted as the
heir of Roger -Sullivan and? of boss
Murphy. He dreamed himself a
"king maker," and his , friends friends boosted him as the "great leader."
It was all bunk. They were so certain that they
were going to nominate Al Smith
that they told an open-mouthed world
all about it long before they started
to New York.
WTien it finally percolated through
their celtic skulls that they couldn't
put the pope s agent across they
were going to make Dever vice-pres
ident. Making kings, by the back door method, wasn't to their liking,
but the boys are versatile, and
The Sad Blow
Then they were going to castigate
the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in
the platform. They did the best they
could. Mike Igoe and a lot of other
fellows helped, but even with the aid
of a gallery packed with Bowery
toughs, and a gate-crashing crew on
the convention floor, they were foiled
in meir plans. A sad Blow and a
surprising, but the boys next com
forted themselves with a scheme to wreck the Klan through the publicity
cnanneis oi tne New York news
papers. They had the strings on
the Times, the World, the Tribune, and others, so they thought they
would turn obvious defeat into a satisfying victory by shedding the spotlight on the Klan.
But, alas and alack, the publicity
resulted in hundreds of thousands of Americans scurrying about to find Klan headquarters where they could
hand over their application dona
tions. Brennan, Dever and Igoe had
figured wrong again.
Protestantism had thrown off the yoke that a long line of Catholic "bosses" had managed to keep
around their necks. It was tragic.
but true. William H. Stuart, a Ro
man Catholic, political editor of
Hearst's Chicago Evening American
and personal friend and booster of
Brennan, Dever, and their confed
erates, recognized the end of
"bossism" and their defeat.
Excerpts from his signed article
sent from New York July 10, follow
"Chicago shock troops, who de
livered on their assignment to wreck McAdoo and who were permitted to
ratify the nomination of John W.
Davis for President have started
back home. Only a Wrecking Crew
"It would be an exaggeration to say that they are enthusiastic over
the outcome of this convention in
which two distinguished Democrats
Walsh and Meredith, declined the vice-presidential nomination, and the
wiser ones by now probably have come to the realization that they were the wrecking crew rather than the king makers. "There" are many versions as to
just what did happen under the surface, just how the strings were pulled and the full, true story may never
be written, but the opinion is pretty definite that the Dever-Brennan Democratic organization had little or nothing to do with the naming of John W. Davis.
"The Chicagoans were in command for the wrecking-crew drive.
in which the fire of "religious hate
flamed, but if George E. Brennan had anything to do with deciding who the candidate should be he has successfully concealed that fact from at least most of those who sat with him ii the Illinois delegation."
The public school Is the training ground of American presidents. It is the place where the boys and girls learn to know all kinds of Americans. President Coolidge went to a public school In Vermont and Mrs. Coolidge was a teacher In the public schools. Children should be taught what the public schools mean to America and why the founders of our government were so anxious to have free public schools for every one. It is the place where our children meet the rich and the poor. They sit side by side with the child recently brought over from Europe and the children whose great-great grandparents were born on American soil. Boys who are trained in private schools have some advantages, of course, but they are not trained by the hard knocks as the boy who is trained in the public school. The little fish accustomed to a bowl in
the parlor as his sea would not sur
vive long in the great ocean. He has
not had the training that best fits him" for fighting the enemy. Neither will the boy who. is educated in the
private school survive on his own
initiative as well as the boy. who
has been trained in the public
school.
Of Vast Importance
The Klan believes in the public
school system of America. It believes that it is so important that it
should be recognized by the govern
ment. It is one of the important parts of the government. The Klan is not backing any specific measure,
but it is for the proposition of hav
ing a department of education with
secretary in the president's
cabinet.
The public school teacher is an
important factor in this program. For years they have been poorly paid and in the rural schools many times they- have been poorly pre
pared. One of the things that should be demanded is that the
teacher should be well prepared for
the teaching profession and then they should receive compensation for the service commensurate with
the preparation required.
The average salary paid ele
mentary teachers in cities over
100,000 in population in 1913 was
$807. This is a monthly salary of $57, and a weekly salary of $15.50.
In cities of 8,000 to 30,000 in popula
tion the average annual salary paid elementary teachers was. $597 in
1913 a monthly salary of $50 and
weekly salary of $11.50. It need
RECEIVER IS SOUGHT
FOR HOUSE OF DAVID
Anxiety Is Caused Catholics
Because of Likeness to Roman Institutes
BENTON HARBOR, Mich.. July 27.
Rumblings of trouble around the
House of David are said to have brought fear to the followers of the old-world political machine, and It Is understood that anthoritien nt
Rome have been asked for aid in the battle between the notorious cult and the state of Michigan.
It is the desire of the state to
name a receiver for the property of
me cult at the House of David, and the complaint seems to be placed on the grounds that the House of David is a place where illegal conduct is carried on between men and women, and that those who helped build it
ana care ror It are mere dupes.
Canse for Anxiety - These charges, it is said, are what
is causing a certain amount of
anxiety at papal headauarters. as
the secret system of "mixed rnm-
pany" behind locked doors also ex
ists in the Roman form of religion
ine newspapers, In speaking of
eignt hundred men and -women
slaves, who have toiled for twenty
years wun no return save a bare
living and a promise of immortal life" have unwittingly pictured the convents and monasteries, and have
sei ine people of Michigan to think ing more deeply on the subject. Religion Does Not Enter
The religious side of the question, however, does not enter into the af
fair so much as the meeting out of fair play to all. If one place must be closed by the state on account of
tne way it operates, then it is only natural to believe that other avRtAma
operating along practically the same
unes snouia also be closed, in or
aer to carry out the fundamental principles of the country, which calls for fairness and imDartialitv tn
all. These are the conditions that
confront the people of Michigan tp day,, who are endeavoring to educate and Americanize those of foreltta
ideas through the American publlo school.
Depend on Parochial Teaching) ' The Knights of Columbus sav that
If they give up their parochial schools, Roman Catholicism would, die.
Thus, with the threatened nToalTi?
of the House of David, which would
set a precedent, and the vote on the public school " issue coming nearer each day, the political-ecclesiastical machine of the Italian potentate is beginning to wobble in Michigan.
Low Race Mixtures
The schedule of allotments
the new immigration law has its. interest. Germany stands at the head of the list of available applicants for citizenship here with more than
50,000 allotted. Great Britain and northern Ireland are next in line with over 34,000, and the Irish Free State with more than 28,000. Jast across the border in Canada enough. Immigrants are waiting to exhaust the entire British allotment for the year. Meanwhile, we are led to believe, there are thousands of immigrants of a totally different character sneaking into the country in numbers that defy calculation. It is the woebegone, low-race mixtures on the southern borders that must now be watched sharply an ignorant scum, the offspring of cruel and crowded centuries.
An agreement has been entered into by Bulgaria and Czecho-Slo-vakia whereby the government of Bulgaria engages to purchase machinery and railroad equipment from Czecho-Slovakia and Czechoslovakia will purchase tobacco from Bulgaria for its tobacco monopoly.
Because he does not intend that the great trees on his estate shall ever be used for commercial purposes, John Bryan, of Riverside, O., has had them heavily rifted with spikes that saws will find it difficult to go through.
not be argued that such salaries were inadequate to secure skilled services in any line." Research Bulletin, N. E. A.
Wage -Too Small It is a wonder that schools were
able to do as well as they did, says
the writer in the same bulletin. Quoting further:
"Managers of private industry
would label as ridiculous any at
tempt to obtain a large supply of
skilled services at the rate of -$67 a
month or $15.50 a week. It should have been recognized earlier that
such wages would fail to attract any great number of capable people with training of six years or more beyond elementary school graduation."
TIPTON KLANSMEN IN
BIG CELEBRATION
(Special to The Fiery Cross)
TIPTON, Ind., July 29. All -is in readiness for the Klan celebration
to be held here tonight when delegations, from Anderson, Alexandria
Noblesville, Sheridan, Kokomo, and
others points will take part in
parade to be held as part of the demonstration. One of the features
of the evening will be a ceremonial
at which a large class of candidates
will be initiated into the Klan or ganization.
A large electric cross, which has
just been completed, will be lighted
for the first time tonight. It is
slightly over twelve feet high
is expected a large crowd will at
tend and preparations have been
made by local Klansmen to take care
of several thousand persons.
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