ith; on the other a
demagog speaking about the tyranny of capitalists and usurers." And
then, of course, the inevitable religious tag: "How will men obey you,
if they believe not in God, who is the author of all authority?" At
which, according to the "Times", "prolonged applause and cheers" from
the Merchants and Manufacturers! The editor of the "Times" goes back
to his office, and inspired by this episcopal eloquence writes a
"leader" with the statement that: "#We have no proletariat in
America!#"

#Das Centrum#

In order to see clearly the ultimate purpose of this Unholy Alliance,
this union of Superstition and the Merchants' and Manufacturers'
Association, we have to go to Europe, where the arrangement has been
working for a thousand years. In Europe to-day we see the whole world
in conflict with a band of criminals who have been able to master the
minds and lives of a hundred million highly civilized people. As I
write, the Junker aristocracy is at bay, and soon to have its throat
cut; but there comes a Holy Father to its rescue, with the cross of
Jesus uplifted, and a series of pleas for mercy, written in Vienna,
edited in Berlin, and sent out from Rome. The Holy Father loves all
mankind with a tender and touching love; his heart bleeds at the sight
of bloodshed and suffering, and he pleads the sacred cause of peace on
earth and good-will toward men.

But what was the Holy Father doing through the forty-three years that
the Potsdam gang were preparing for their assault on the world? How
was the Holy Father manifesting his love of peace and good will? He
is, you understand, the "sole, last, supreme judge of what is right
and wrong," and his followers obey him with the utmost promptness and
devotion--they express themselves as "prostrate at his feet." And when
the masters of Prussia came to him and said: "Give us the power to
turn this nation into the world's greatest military empire"--what did
the Roman Church answer? Did it speak boldly for the gentle Jesus, and
the cause of peace on earth and good-will towards men? No, it did not.
To Bismarck in Germany it said, precisely as it said to Mark Hanna in
America: "Give us honors and prestige; give us power over the minds of
the young, so that we may plunder the poor and build our cathedrals
and feed fat our greed; and in return we will furnish you with votes,
so that you may rule the state and do what you will."

You think there is exaggeration in that statement?