d to believe.

Our Protestant ministers of to-day are weak-kneed, weak-spined,
"nothings," who have not enough religion nor backbone to take a firm
stand against Catholicism, and until we have such men we will
continue to see "Maggie Barrys" dragged from Protestant meetings and
publicly whipped by parents, and then sentenced to imprisonment by
judges elected by Roman Catholics.

Again we want to repeat the head lines of this chapter for the
benefit of those who are weak-kneed and who are entirely "spineless:"
"_Nations who have been disgraced by the toleration of popish rule_,"
and we leave it to the reader to decide whether this headline is a
misnomer or not, as we have offered you evidence in this chapter that
should convince any right-thinking man or woman that if the Roman
Catholic Church has grown so bold in America, with the ink upon the
Declaration of Independence scarcely dry, what shall we expect for
our posterity if there is not a stand made by Protestantism to halt
this "emperor of darkness" in his march of devastation?

This black-winged vulture of human rights is growing bolder day by
day by being permitted by Protestantism to separate and divide the
Protestant vote among different parties, and combining the hosts of
Catholicism for an onslaught against everything American in order to
control the affairs of this country. If you will listen you can
almost hear the death rattle of Protestantism as the serpent of Rome
has so gently entwined her slimy self about the throat of our
American goddess of liberty that the death rattle is almost
perceptible.

Strike while you have the power, and do not delay, or else the time
is not far distant when the once powerful arm of Protestantism will
be paralyzed by the infusion of Roman virus.

[Illustration: UNCLE SAM--"Here is your next fight boys."]

Chapter XVI.

Nearing the Trenches of Physical Strength.

We can only judge the future of nations and institutions by the past
and present, and if we are to judge Catholicism by her past, and if
we are honest with ourselves, we cannot paint a future without
producing a panoramic view that is dreadful to behold, as Catholicism
in the past has been an institution which always endeavored to rule
by the tyranny of oppression, and her decisions and mandates to-day
are the same as they were during the inquisitorial days when our
Protestant forefathers were burned at the state for disobeying the
commands of Cathol