about him. One day a
reporter of one of the St. Louis newspapers met Butler and called his
attention to what Priest Coffey had said about him, and the only
answer that Butler gave this reporter was: "Father Coffey is a
Catholic priest and I have nothing to say, and if he should spit in
my face I would not resent the action, as I was born and raised a
Catholic, and do not believe that a Catholic priest can commit a
sin."

Now, if a man of Ed Butler's intellect can be brought up in this land
of intelligence to believe such abominations in regard to a Catholic
priest, is it not reasonable to suppose that the female members of
the Catholic Church would have a severe task in defending their
virtue should a priest desire to destroy it, by telling them "that no
act of his could defile them, as it was impossible for him to sin?"

Now, reader, you may not know just what kind of treatment from the
Catholic Church I will receive for writing this book, but as soon as it
is placed upon the market the Catholic Church will "excommunicate" me;
however, it may be possible that the reader does not understand what a
horrible curse this excommunication is, but in order that you may
thoroughly understand what I mean I will repeat, word for word, what
some Catholic official will declare against me for writing this book,
which will further go to show the reader the vileness of this damnable
creed, and which will also go to convince the reader what fear the
followers of Catholicism have of the priestcraft, which will more fully
convince you that timid, unsuspecting woman, who has been brought up to
believe in the paganism of Catholicism, can be easily led to yield to
the lustful desires of the priestcraft, for fear that by refusing his
request that he would pronounce this terrible curse upon her, which she
has been taught would forever damn her eternal soul.

The curse of excommunication which I am certain to receive at the
hands of Catholicism for writing this book follows:

"By the authority of God Almighty, the Father, Son and Holy
Ghost, and the undefiled Virgin Mary, mother and patroness of
our Savior, and all of the Celestial Virtues, Angels,
Archangels, Thrones, Dominions, Powers, Cherubim and
Seraphim, and of all the Holy Patriarchs, Prophets, and of
all the Apostles and Evangelists, of the Holy Innocents, who
in the sight of the Holy Lamb are found worthy to sing the
new songs of the Holy Martyrs a