Taft has the personal right to be a
Unitarian, a Pagan, a Parsee or a
Catholic (religious; or political if he
will) but has no more right, as
President of this nation, to take cog
nizance of the Romish Cardinals
than he has to make obeisance to
eight new Methodist Bishops recent
ly elected by the Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal churchmen, or
the presidents of the great Baptist
gathering at Des Moines and Okla
homa City.
With Pope Leo XIII declaring in
1886, “All Catholics should exert
their power to cause the Constitu
tions of the States to be modeled
after principles of the true Church,”
and with Archbishop Ireland declar
ing: "The Church can never come to
its own until there are more Catho
lics in Congress,” it is getting high
time, fellow citizens of America, for
us to realize that it is an unsafe
thing for Americans to put a Roman
Catholic in office unless he disowns
political allegiance to the Pope of
Rome. In the light—or we should
say, the shadow of what the Man on
the Tiber has meant through all the
bloody, dreary years against the
march of soul-freedom in the world,
we offer this ready, reasonable solu
tion to the anti-Catholic agitation in
this country:
If American Catholics wish to free
themselves from political suspicion
let them openly break forever with a
meddlesome foreign pope! Then,
and not till then, can they expect
freemen in America to take their
hand without suspicion or restraint,
and say: We trust you—we are
your brothers! —Golden Age.
In his Tariff Primer, Mr. Watson
explains how the Federal Government
helps the Trusts to rob the people.
Price, 25 cents.
