Bob Shuler's Free Lance, Volume 2, Number 3, February 1918 Page: 61
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BOB SHULER'S FREE LANCE
cities like Fort Worth to thus debauch and saturate
with vice and crime our soldiers!
FATHER SPRATT OF KINGSTON, ONTARIO,
Archbishop under the Pope of an extended terri-
tory in Canada, is now enjoying some rather inter-
esting notoriety He has recently been sued by
"Sister Mary Basil," a Nun who has served the
church in an institution known as "St. Mary's-on-
the-Lake Orphanage." She sued the Archbishop for
alleged abduction and assault naming the sum of
$29,000. The courts awarded her $24,000 of the
amPount asked for and in the judgment left no doubt
in any one's mind as to the guilt of the Archbishop
and other Roman Catholic Clergymen. It seems
that the Archbishop and other clergymen had been
guilty of abducting girls from the orphanage for im-
moral purposes and assaulting those forcibly who
would not tamely submit to their insults. The
strangest part of this story is the fact that the
Roman Church, instead of expelling these ecclesias-
tical scalawags from the ministry of that church, has
rather placed its approval upon them and has sus-
tained them with commendations from those higher
in authority. The wonder is that such a church,
with such a ministry, can live one day in a civilized
country
EVERY CHURCH HAS ITS JUDAS who betrays
the ministry and the membership of that church,
but, thank God, every other church, save Roman
Catholicism, sees to it that a convicted libertine is
unfrocked and kicked out of the holy place within
the temple. Now and then a Methodist minister
falls into sin, but he never remains in the ministry
after the fact is proven. But here is a church that
opens up its cathedral and holds a public celebration
at which are all the Priests and Prelates within his
administration and at which he is permitted to arise
and defend himself by making a terrific onslaught
on the court that convicted him and on the daily! II IIiI11 !!1!I (
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does Roman Catholicism heap smut and filth upon
her already heavy load of shame. If any more is
needed, it is but necessary to notify my readers that
twenty of the twenty-six Roman Catholic Congress-
men voted with the weasly minority against Nation-
wide Prohibition, thus proving conclusively where
that church stands on the question of the open sa-
loon. This, together with the fact that the Okla-
homa Supreme Court decided last month against a
Roman Catholic Priest who had sued the Santa Fe
Railroad in an effort to force that road to carry in-
toxicants to him, would seem to brand the Pope's
gang as a pretty dirty outfit.
SPEAKING OF PROHIBITION AND THE
ROMAN ATTITUDE calls to mind the fact that
Cardinal Gibbons stood with all the might of his
office against the effort to adopt prohibition as a
war measure, while men like Cardinal O'Connell
and other high churchmen have openly opposed all
prohibition agitation and advance within the indi-
vidual states. Thus the Pope has had the hearty
support of his leading followers in the pro-German
program of poisoning this nation with alcohol, thus
unfitting her in as much as it was possible for the
terrible contest before her Rome's trouble is that
she is on the wrong side of all questions. Moreover,
she has approved and encouraged immorality until
her acts are notorious. In Brazil, the intelligent
people have turned to infidelity rather than to be
longer under the tutorage of a church that approves
the acts of licentious and lustful clergymen and finds
no reproach for illegitimate offsprings, if they be
sired by men who wear the cloth.
THE FOOLS ARE NOT ALL DEAD but they are
dying one by one. We have just read a news item
with a Chicago date line, giving the information that
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Shuler, Robert P. (Robert Pierce), 1880-. Bob Shuler's Free Lance, Volume 2, Number 3, February 1918, periodical, February 1918; Paris, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1146842/m1/13/?q=waco+tornado: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lena Armstrong Public Library.