I'n this ungoldly work, there are
many engaged. Chief among this
scurrilous tribe of falsifiers, charac
ter assassins, mental libertines, at
tacking upright manhood and maid
enly-chastity, and traitors to every
principle of religious and civil lib
erty, are those who aid and abet,
support, publish and circulate that
filthy sheet (a sponsor for the al
leged Knights of Columbus Oath),
the name of which no clean spoken
man would mention, except in con
demnation, —“The Menace” —aiding
no church, succoring no creed, teach
ing no religious doctrine, promising
no place of eternal happiness as a
reward for the righteous, and pro
fessing no God; but is given to form
ing and sending out lies, to scatter
ing filth and the foul odors of im
morality, seeking to enter homes
and to acquire a clientele by stealth,
and to spreading strife, discord, hat
red and dissension throughout the
land. Such is “The Menace”—a
hand-maid to Satan and the bastard
offspring of Socialism, caressed by
Blasphemy and fondled by Iniquity
and all her brood.
That your paper has joined the
ranks of this unclean and ungodly
tribe, bringing disgrace to the home
it enters, to the hand it touches and
to the honored press of North Caro
lina, we are, indeed, very sorry.
