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SWORD OF TRUTH
"Y*, a Sword shall pierce through thy own mmI abo, that the thought* of raany'hearti may be reveal ed."-Luke 2-35.
"And ye (hall know the Truth, and the Truth (hall aaake you tree.'Woha M2.
VoL 2, No. 36
SENTINEL, OKLAHOMA, WEDNESDAY. MAY 13. 1914
W. W. HORNBECK, Editor
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CATHOLICISM IN AMERICA.
by j. t. bailey, cloud chief.
Here it it; this is the Oration that a Weatherford Priest Brand-
ed "Vile and Slanderous" and for which the Cowardly Nor-
mal President Made a Pitiful Apology:
When we speak of Roman
Catholicism we speak of an evil
that is either directly or indirect-
ly confronting every citizen of
this nation, for the perils of
Catholicism are the most insidu-
ous, the most extensive and the
most deadly that theaten the
liberties of the American people
today.
While making an unpleasant
allusion to any church may seem
harsh, especially to those who
may be in sympathy with that
church, yet, duty demands that
we protect our nation from sny
foreign power that might en-
danger our liberty, whether it
be a political or a religious or-
ganization. Go far enough back
in history and you will find that
the forefathers of most of us
were Catholics. If such bold
reformers as John Wycliff and
Martin Luther had not risked in-
juring the feelings of some of
their Catholic friends, yes, and
even risked their own lives in
order to convey the truth to the
people, we might today be in the
gall of Roman bitterness and the
bond of Catholic iniquity.
History reveals to us that the
kingdoms of the earth rock in
the cradle of uncertainty. We
may have a Babylon today,
looked upon with the greatest
pride of a civilization, tomorrow
it may be swept from the globe,
leaving only a few ruins to tell
us the sad mistake of humanity.
The word America is looked
upon by every leading nation as
being a synonym of freedom and
equality. The praises which our
nation has received since gaining
its freedom from Great Britian,
have caused us to feel that
America is surrounded with an
invincible wall of protection
through which no enemy can
enter.
Today the pope of Rome is us-
ing every scheme that under-
mining ingenuity can devise, to
gain a foothold, not only in
America, but in every protestant
nation on the globe. Our nation
is being flooded from all sides
with the illiterate European im-
migrant whom the pope has
taught to uphold the monarchial
form of government; our free
public schools are being opposed
by the Catholic parochial school
over which the stars and stripes
cannot float, and in which the
national hymn, America, cannot
be sung.
The pope is also training men,
especially to hold public office in
the United States. During the
last presidential administration
the people have witnessed, not
once but again and again, the
disgusting spectacle of the pres-
Uent of the United States, elect-
Pi by protestant votes, selecting
a Catholic cabinet and permit-
ting the pope of Rome to exer-
cise more influence over him than
all the protectant millions of
this nation combined. But now
a church claims and exercises THE REAL DEMOCRACY
there is a bright side to this
gloomy picture, for while Mr.
Taft, becoming the tool of Rome,
vetoed our immigration bill, the
patriotic, loyal Americans have
vetoed the most pernicious "Bill"
that was ever introduced into
Washington-Bill Taft.
Judging Catholicism by its
name, we should naturally pre-
sume it to be a Christian institu-
tion, but its past history bears
witness to the fact that it is
nothing more than an ingenious
political machine, galvanized
with a religious name. To call
the rattlesnake a canary bird
does not make him a canary bird;
neither does it make that mix-
ture of idolatry, paganism and
heathanism Christianity to call
it Christianity.
Neithf* in the pastsges nor in
this age has Catholicism upheld
the true principles of Democracy
nor advocated religious freedom.
Just as the same tree brings
forth the same frnit, so does
Rome bring forth her same fruit;
the picture is ever the same;
given popery and we have im-
morality, poverty and ignorance.
How can we, knowing the
principles advocated by the
Catholic church, assent for it to
control this nation? Can we
agree to the doctrine of the
priest being the head of the
church when we have the words
of Christ, himself, saying, "I
am the way, the truth and the
light."
Where Catholicism prevails
spiritual slavery exists, and
when we permit the Catholic
school to replace our free public
school, political slavery will be
following close upon its heels,
for as has truly been said: "Ed-
ucation is a greater safeguard to
liberty than a standing army."
Look at the countries where
Roman Catholic education pre-
dominates. and then turn to
where non-sectarian education
exists, and if you are a friend to
the progress and enlightenment
of the masses you will not hesi-
tate a moment in defending our
free public school system as
against the parochial school sys-
tem of the Roman Catholic
church whose banner has never
been bourne by the legion of
"Liberty, Equality and Fraterni-
ty."
If we are to perpetuate the
liberty which our forefathers
have handed down to us; if we
are to protect the virtue of wo-
manhood from the ravages of
the chief of white slavers, the
priest; if the stars and stripes
are to remain floating over our
nation, we must strike a death-
blow to this foreign power that
is so rapidly gaining foothold in
America.
As voters we have the right
and should demand the position
of the candidate or public official
the right to exert political in-
influence, it behooves loyal citi-
zens to study the history of that
church and the tendency of its
teachings. According to the
oath of the Catholic church, to
refuse allegiance to the *x>po is
the unpardonable sin, tlu -e
no Catholic can obey the " '-
dance of his church and at the
same time execute faithfully his
duties as a public official of the
United States. To permit such
men to control the affairs of our
government is to take a step
toward despotism.
Let us demand our candidates
to take a stand upon this great
problem; let all protestents unite
in perpetuating our liberty and
let there be written in letters of
gold on an arch reaching from
the Atlantic to the Pacific,
"Eternal Vigilance is the Price
of Liberty."
Rum and Revenue.
The Melting Pot.
In olden times the kings and
rulers collected taxes by just
sending their tax collectors out
and telling the people to fork
over. If the victim didn't com-
ply he was put in a dungeon,
whipped, or, if found out to be
absolutely unable tc raise the
tax, sold into slavery. That's
the way the Caesars used to raise
their revenues. Every once in
awhile the people rose in revolt
against this method of picking
their pockets. Then the soldiers
lit into them, and, after a whole-
sale slaughter and confiscation
of property, those who were left
alive submitted a pain to be rob-
bed. All this happened before
the days of tariff bills and liquor
licenses. It was a clumsy way,
the old way was, and cost lot® of
worry to the rulers, who never
knew at what moment some re-
bellion was going to break out.
The "common" people never
could be made so common that
they were not liable to make a
OF SOCIALIST PARTY
H. M. Sinclair, in Harlow'* Weekly.
Socialism as a world movement
looks forward to the social own-
ership and democratic manage-
ment of the means and instru-
ments of production and distri-
bution that are socially used.
Collective ownership of itself, is
not sufficient. True democratic
management of social utilities is
even more important.
Realizing, therefore, the vital
importance of democracy in the
every day management of mat-
ters that are the concern of all.
Socialists the world over have
insisted upon the management of
their party affairs. No political
organization in the -world's his-
tory has ever so earnestly sought
to place the management of its
activities so completely in t!io
hands of its membership to the
end that the popular will should
dominate in the minutest detail
of its entire administration with-
out the slightest semblance of
factional, gag or machine rule.
As a means for the furtherance
of such membership control, the
initiative, referendum, recall
and the preferential ballot has
been for years in constant use
by the Socialist organization.
e e e
When the platform committee
made its report to the state con-
vention, and its work had been
approved by the delegates as-
sembled, the platform had yet to
receive the all important sanc-
tion of the membership before
becoming the accepted statement
of party principles. After wait-
ing from December to March for
any additional matter that might
be offered by the "locals," the
entire platform report was then
prepared in ballot form, section
by section, and a ballot sent to
every member of the party in
the state. Thus each member of
the organization had a voice in
the making of the declaration of
principles of his party. The foi-
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distributed among the remaining
candidates according to the sec-
ond choice marked on each bal-
lot This process is continued
until one candidate receives a
majority of the total vote.
roar when the tax collector de-1 lowing section of the platform,
manded about all the money they | with place marked for "Yes" or
had. Even today the tariff has j "No" vote, will illustrate the
to be tinkered with great care1 manner of adoption of a Social-
and advertised as an invention ist party platform in Oklahoma:
to keep "prosperity" with us, or
the people might get wise to the
game and swat it.
But it costs like blazes for any
PI under bund to run a govern-
ment to protect its own private
interests. Standing armies and
big navies run into hundreds of
million of dollars a year, and
neither foreign nor domestic
slaves are to be trusted without
soldiers. For the raising of rev-
enue without raising a roar,
never has there been anything
devised like the co-partnership
of the government and the booze
business. Who in the world is
going to get mad enough to re-
volt because booze is taxed? The
folks that do not use it don't
care, and the booze-fighters are
too darn busy busting up furni-
Art. 3. The Socialist party
of Oklahoma demands the
stale ownership and con-
trol of such industries and
means of transportation as are
collectively used by the people of
Oklahoma, such as the coal and
mine industries, the oil industry,
the ginning and compressing and
cotton manufacturing industries,
the telephone, and other large
scale industries that have reach-
ed the trustified stage; such in-
dustries to be under the demo-
cratic management of the work-
ers and to be operated not for
the purpose of making profits
for the state, but to give to the
workers in such industries the
full social value of their labor.
All ballots are sent by the state
secretary to the secretaries of
the various locals, who distribute
them to the individual members
of these organizations. The vo-
ted ballots are then collected by
ture and rajs'ng heU wrth^thew- the local secretary who returns
them to the state office to be
counted.
All nominees for
families to mind about being rob-
bed.
Isn't it fine?
And the government of the
Plunderbund, by the Plunder-
bund, and for the Plunderbund,
gathers in millions of revenue
from the most forlorn slaves the
world has ever known-the slaves
of rum. The rum-slaves are the
last hope of revenue for the war-
demons. There would be no
good picking left in sight if rum
was gone. Standing armies and
navies would collapse for the
lack of the price to keep the ae-
on any subject touching upon I cursed things going, if it wasn't
the welfare of the people. Where for the revenue from rum.
state offices
are selected by means of the
preferential ballot, (Hare-Spence
system). By this system each
elector votes for every candidate
in the list, marking "1" in front
of his first choice. "2" in front
of his second choice and so on
through the list. In counting
these ballots, the first choice
ballot for each candidate is laid
in a separate pile. If no candi-
date receives a majory on the
first canvass, the ballots of the
candidate receiving the lowest
The Socialist party also
carries its ideals df democracy
into the payment of party ex-
penses. It is an axiom with
Socialists that those who pay the
expenses of a party usually con-
trol and own it. For that
reason the party would not
receive "donations" from Per-
kinses, Morgans, Ryans or
the Standard Oil Co., even if
these parties were to make such
an unthinkable offer. The eman-
cipation of the workers will only
be brought about by the workers
themselves. "Let each help
pay for his own freedom," is a
party slogan the world over.
Every real Socialist, therefore,
helps pay the party propaganda
by means of the "card" system,
a device also very much in use
in labor unions. A member on
being admitted to the party is
furnished with a red card on
which there are spaces for
stamps to be attached and can-
celled by the secretary of the
local to which he belongs. The
local secretary secures these
stamps from the state secretary
who in turn secures his supply
from the national office of the
Socialist party at Chicago. This
monthly payment of dues furn-
ishes the financial support of the
organization - local, state
national.
It should be noted that since
the formation of the Socialist
party the world over, women
have been and are admitted to
membership on exact equality
with men. They carry the same
red cards, vote on all matters
that concern the party, act as
delegates to party conventions
and in every way are considered
the comrades and equals of men.
Socialists do not believe that
democracy is possible where half
the population are excluded by
law from having a voice in
making the rules and regulations
that govern them.
The red card membership of
the party in Oklahoma in 1912
was very close to 3,500. At
present it is very much in excess
of 10,000. The following shows
the growth of th° movement in
Oklahoma since IMO. The fig-
ures given are the official
this ratio is maintained in Okla-
homa we have no reason to be-
lieve that it will not- the total
vote will approximate 100,000.
At the present time the Social-
ist party is the seoond political
organization in numbers, in
about a third of the counties of
the state. Judging the future
by the past, it is not unreason-
able to predict that the Socialist
party will be the second political
party of the state after the com-
ing election. This will give it
representation on the state and
many county election boards.
Men do not go back to the old
political parties after getting a
fair understanding of the Marx-
ian philosophy. The party if
here to stay.
All the bright intellectual
young men I have talke^vwith.
on the subject of war, say that
they would rather fight it out at
the ballot box than with bullets.
Life, as poor as it is under exist-
ing conditions, is better than
having their bodies put up as
targets for other poor working-
men, who have no complaint
against any one but the masters
who are robbing them. The men
who always do the fighting are
becoming wise. If there are any
great interests to protect let
those who own the interests go
to war and protect them. How
does that appeal to you, brother?
Rip-Saw.
One man in 1000 in England
ant* | owns more than one acre of land.
Thousands not one foot. Thous-
ands are trotting along in the
same lane. A tine showing for
Capitalism to make and yet the
poor dupes of political fraud
think that Socialism "will suah
get me land, and bust me home
up."—Ex.
The government, which is
owned and operated by the cap-
italists, appoints inspectors to
investigate how the capitalists
conduct their "Big Biz" affairs.
In other words it looks just like
the devil playing with his own
tail. Ex.
Was there ever such a thing
as real overproduction? Did any
country ever produce too much
food and clothing for its people?
The term "overproduction" is a
misnomer. It is used when the
people haven't enough money to
vote 15Uy what workers produce in the
of the elections held since that mills mines and factories. So the
date.
1900... 780
1902 1.900
1904 4,443
1907 10.646
1900 21.089
1910. 24.707
1912 41.560
In 1912 the ratio of red card
members tathe vote cast in Ok-
lahoma was about 1 to 12. The
ratio throughout the United
goods lie on the shelf asd
and the people starve. Nix
the "over-production" stunt.
Is wearing out. — Ex.
rot
on
It
Effect of War.
"War makes the working peo-
ple clap their hands and yell so
loudly they can't think and so
long as the working people don't
think, it is easy to keep the
I States for the past ten years has I bridles and saddles on them.
number of "first choices" are | been very close to 1 to 10. If | Kirkpatrick.
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