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Eighteenth "Ycar,vmaber Hour. 1IOKAVIAN FALLO, H. CLPT.t 1927 20 Cents a Year L.1B: LAV7fl, Editor. r v-f If its'promlse. ;'ButJt begins ?l to look y a sight like" wehav made "one 1 promise that we can't; keep, Here'8 that's the matter: . fti.If you remember,-We promised in last issue', of The Lash .tbat ' we would print in this issue a list of the- questions which r Roman Catholic bachelor priests are In1 the habit of asking women and igrls in the se cret .confessionalbox. : But we find tbatthelaw jot the -'land, as well as reasonably respect' for Recency, V to ,oe prjntea in a newspaper oi sermon general circulation. We have 'these questions a long and sickening list of them in a booklet written by an ex-priest who was - honest ' enough to come- out of the old Whore's house of - bondage and expose her '- rottenness before an astonished- world. There is hot, and cannot beLany doubt as to the genumeness of the questions, nor of the fact that "women and 'girls of 1 ,, the Romish faith, do' have to hear . and answer these vile ',; questions ( irpin the , foul t lips t of licentious iarlests. Having j himself beenfor Httany-f years a?wearer, f the priestly pticoat, 'the vTtyerot;jtliit "booklet .knew; -workings . 'of' the pappy .cratic Wchinefrom the-, inside. But he ' happened, to be at heart an honest - miari, "land "he ' hecameso. disgusted v with "the- rotten mess that , he " tore off the petUcoat and wrotel such an . exposure of the "confessional,. box" ..as has T&ever been; seen -before. set of bachelor buck., priests .the read and imagined as the terrible right to enter a . secret f,den .and weeks lengthened Into months 'and have talk to women and 'girls , which .years, was enough for me. ;Too is too nasty to print in . a - newspa per? Now, folks, . how many, of rou want for president of, the United States a man who professes that sort of religion, and whose first allegiance is not to America but to the pope of Rome? All iu favor of Al Smith for president, please go soak your head in a horse-trough SERMOX Olf THE AMERICAN LEGION. much. A few more years of it wpuld have run me crazy, and me here at home. Then what must it have been like tb the suffering sol diers who were forced. to be in the red, reeking midst of it all? I can but dimly xjmagine. And don't tell me that any sane man gets pleasure out of living It over again. American Legion members who are now in France express regTet that French people have restored the shell-torn battle field's to fertil farms and the spots where red hell Uc3 II Be Diagea ! In the Sunday Visitor, priest Han lyn says that "Purgatory Is , con gested." , Thar, by Hanner:, Ifre been lookin.- for something' to hap pen like that... Purgatory is . full up at present so packed that their legs are stickin' out at the windows. Tou see . according to Rome's "ology", and . that is the kind , of 'ology' that Al Smith believes in, when a fellow goes and dies without having a pretty fair rating InSt Peter's directory, his soul . la side-tracked at "Purgatory", a side station on the road to the "Far Be- 1 3" 4"A 7 i if ' i. 1, i -i I reckon right now is a purty good rn: wrMrw staUon.on the road to thenar Be- , , y farme.rhn io aasmApW ' W&Z& on that gat ;-pate-rot-ic nt to &ret ihose bloodv days 'or an oia.uc. pnest wno , which'calls itself the A- mUa th rJLnn martia tn Vm if claims to have the fellow's , 60ul; In shebang merican Legion. Just about now the said shrebang is holding a great world convention in the old town of Paris and trying to scare up enough "war-spirit" to get another world war started. ' There now! I guess you expected me to float with -the current, like all the rest of the dead ' fish, and pour out a great torrent of pate rotric praise for the military ma chine known as " the American Legion. y Sorry, my dear fish,; but you will have to be disappointed.; Maybe the American, Legio: is the last eternal cap-stone on . th ' pyramid -'of ' per fection. Maybe if ,: JBut- I. cant get my goo-goos- set ? on it - at jiist that angle. ; - ' What's it all about, anyhow?- To keep alive the- war spirit?; Some say no, but .. that's 'actly' what it does. It keens oiling newuoals on . .But we,find 1ipon, investigation' the" flames' of hate that swept the that the 'printing :1 these ' questions world fjor fou-r terrible.'fred years, aswe -jfimBiyn(Ai. :k-violation How can' such a ' mentalrattitude c-the'postariaw. ,'.0ne brave 'editor" help the cause of world peace? How waft dragged into "court and torment- can anyv good result 'from. 4 a !'contin- e"d for years - because v lie -printed ual stirring up of that old war Biuue.oi, uieise questions us a-' warn- mania? Are me war memories some- charge. If the dead fellow's rela tives have enough 'dought to pay a priest . for saying mass, then the fellQw! soul4 is -switched back r on the main .line and proceeds to; jog along .on . its lonesome, journey to "whither H,rgoeth,M But if the .d;ear fellowli - relation , sire too porerty- , stricken to dig up the coin tof in duce , a priest . to intercede, .tiea "right there ,f the fellow traveler's soul, may !atay till it sours .sofar . as. thePrtests are concerned. Now t.wjby not, Al Smith's tWall , . Street T friends raise' a purse to .'hire priests, to commence saying mass . over , ,the congested crowdsinIur gatory? I think- a "Purgatory Fund";, will he about the first thins that ( will Je v asked, of Congress if Smith is elected . president! So after The Lash carefully goes over, the situation, it has decided to -run a ' mass ' shop in opposition to the Romish rabble. We are ' re ducing ' the price of mass from one dollar to r,f twelve for twentv cents. Have you flew across the. ocean .an(J we antee "the results will yet? Or were you-simply one of- just M satiSfactory as if Teeiea them who tell , in; off by an old pot-gutted priest - ' wearing a kraut-cuttm' collar and fresh in the minds of the world. The American Legion is made up mostly of army officers who have the military- bug eating on them. To the common fellow who went thru that four years of - hell, it was not .glorious. The, boys who suffered, bled and died, need to be remem bered and honored,- but, not in that way. If 'they, fought to bring peace to the world, as you say, why could n't we have some peace celebrationsT Why 'must' every j Legion convention and every 'Armistice Day bristol with ' guns and reek with burning powder? Ah, my friends, there will" not be any peace ' until militarism is dead and burried. And' ' militarism' will never die so long as the American Legion lives. AH 1:f 11. ' 4 There has never been a' better time than right now to get up a club for The Lash. .. -- r "I Ing gain$t:"ithe; dangers ot; pope- thing to be cherished and kept, alive Eyer7 ime they plant a lilly in a black Mother Hubbard dress" with doni.;;TbeLasUis .adeeent and for the pleasure of sthe?thing? To a EurPe to blamed thing turns out a un as the nasal twang of "j.f r law-abiding paper, and -therefore it small minority perhaps the. answer e' mW " submit ' to tie inevitable fana is -yes. But in my opinipntpineVtenths '., wimaraw jis promise to print these - of the world war veterans want to to be a sword when : it comes up. ii veterans want to m au uus uus nuum ,w uu- "pv" u iu wtr . i -.r--' - uiey went 5 Lnrougn uii ouujm6s . m uwwjv, . dvu . ,T "'swf. possible. I dont see be remembered that just lots of them slices of our theological pud-,;V ;. they could derive husbands to America arehort, too. ding, and if they donV become con-. S'l'u a puritan. ' - : ; Send -along the names of your friends wrapped up in an old lop- u 1? .'. Jl tU4 A 1 viV :A. OU6BUOHR ' , ...v. : gr. ' . fi.frof the hftll .th6T W4nt fhrflllPh UttUU ' BUUI WKC i. Ill ' SIUIVVC. It . Bil -.But'good heavenr Does 'that Just as soon as. . possible. I Aon't see .be,, remembered that just lob 't. crats? T It I1 does 'Vint On" 4hik ntlier fT-ntv. Hvlno- thnia hnrrnra' nvtoi- ij-nln . .T . ' ' . m ' 1 : ?,;.hahd it strengthens it a hundrea every little while v'-' ' ' If you are" hot -satisfied with vincea tnat Komamsmis ine moinert , (.t ! v of harlots and abomination ' of tho ;l ?v -v . 'world, then we'll - buv , a v. natent' A " ' v -.!vi, , mm, -me . yiam - i was nui' iu im? , i owns viw t way ine ijasursajH , ftupyutie ' , - 4 . i v .V-; truth vabotVtheCaUiolic- confession old for the' draV and X didnt ani-; flinder awky and' say it " yourself.- chicken-picker, and commenc a.'- tl!:.naBty,..toprin go bad .enough -toTjL03rateer.. But ".'Then. fI'lt print your letter and -an- . preaching for the? Meth busta'Hc, f;of ;a J'religipn" is it' that gives "a V home. What I Isaw'and, heard nd Let's' have'a hlcelittle friendly fuss. V;-, Suppose we urhover; thiaspage;;Ct
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