This ovklent claim of tbe Roman
Church to pose as a purely religious
organization and to be beyond criti
cism, while, in its own x Jesuitical
way, it is constantly seeking to gain
political and social power, is only
history repeating itself. The Pro
testant people of this, and other
countries, are surely realizing now
that Rome never changes, and we
welcome just such prosecutions as
this against you as a means of arous
ing them completely from their
lethargy, and to a full realization of
just what Rome has constantly been
working for. Rome wants nothing
but “freedom,” freedom from the
operation of every law but that of
Rome and freedom from criticism of
their very act.
Only once more has the “great
blunderer,” our President, done the
wrong thing at the wrong time, in
his submission to the Catholic mi
nority in their assumption of a po
sition and control to which they are
not entitled, an assumption which
seeks to give them a standing be
yond the operation of our laws and
to separate them as a peculiar peo
ple subject only to Rome.
Feeling as we do, we wish to as
sure you of our moral and material
support, and to say to you that we
are ready, as far as we are able, to
contribute financially to a fund for
your defease in this action which, to
us, is nothing more than a thinly
veiled effort by the Roman Church
to prevent the publication of truth
an d facts which tbe authorities of
that church know would be fatal to
them.
Signed by over a. hundred loyal
friends of Watson in Buffalo, N. Y.
Menace Court Speaks.
