Saturday evening, February 8th, William Lloyd Clark delivered one of his characteristic and powerful patriotic lectures at the North Avenue Masonic Hall in this city under the auspices of Northwest Court Guardians of Liberty No. 27.

This is one of the youngest but most energetic Courts of the Guardians of Chicago and as the result of their tireless efforts the hall was filled with an enthusiastic audience, and Mr. Clark was at his best. From the start Mr. Clark had the listeners with him and several times during the course of his lecture he was forced to wait for the applause to cease.

We have seldom listened to a public speaker with Mr. Clark's ready command of every weapon of oratory from wit and humor to tears and pathos, from deadly earnest to scathing sarcasm---and all with that consummate skill that sincerity and faith in the new and mighty modern revolt against political Rome, of which William Lloyd Clark is a strong and valiant soldier.

After Mr. Clark's lecture your correspondent was introduced. The reception he received from the

whole audience when he was introduced as from The Menace Staff convinced him in short order that everybody there was on the Firing Line.

The next evening, Sunday, February 9th, I had the pleasure of attending the Lincoln Memorial Service held in the commodious Grace Lutheran church, Belden avenue and Hamilton court, under the auspices of Lake View Court No. 30, Guardians of Liberty, and heard Mr. H. H. Van Meter's splendid address upon the life and martyrdom of Mr. Lincoln. Mr. Van Meter did not shun to fearlessly place the blame for that dastardly crime where it belongs and proved from history that Lincoln's murder was at the hands of the Romans.

Again your correspondent was introduced, and again he was given a rousing gretting in the name of The Menace.

Priest J. P. O'Callaghan, C. S. P., (whatever that may be), a member of Chicago's last famous "Vice Commission," speaking before the Aldermanic Committee November 12th, last, suiting his sentiments craftily to the mental caliber of the people he was addressing, said:---

"It has often been said that it does not matter what a man believes as long as he does what is right. I do not believe it matters much what a man does if he thinks right. I feel that many of our officials, and often those much abused, have been noble and heroic in their activities. I am happy to say that I believe that the alderman of the First Ward, Mr. Kenna, has never touched one cent of the dirty money!"

Now, Priest O'Callaghan, you knew, even as you spoke those words, that almost everybody in Chicago, as well as a floating population of hoboes, tramps and outcasts nearly a million strong, know this "noble" and "heroic" alderman of the First Ward, Mike Kenna,

as a "Hinky Dink," and when that's said, it's about all said!

In this connection, speaking of the social evil, our wild-eyed, black-petticoated friend, Priest Phelan, relieved himself of the following literary spasm in the issue of his Irish joke-sheet, The Western Watchman, for January 16th:---

"Rockefeller is going to invest $10,000,000 in the reclamation of fallen women. . . .The street walker is a feminine form of highway robber. Nothing will reform a fallen woman but religion, and even that must take the form of segregation and enforced remunerative industry!"

"House of the Good Shepherd," "Magdalene Convents," ---exploited slave labor, eh? Phelan?

I think we begin to understand.

The venomed din of the child-driven sewing machines mingles behind a thousand prison walls today with the ghoulish, chortled vespers of your black-shrouded nuns, and these songs and cries and agonized pleadings are upborne on the unseen wings of the stink of your sweatshops to be a sweat-smelling savor in the nostrils of your god, eh, Phelan?

While the Burnett-Dillingham immigration bill was killed in the house and is now become a thing of history, the fight in the senate where it was passed over President Taft's veto is one long to be remembered.

It is generally known in Washington that Taft's veto was based solely on the now famous "literacy test" at the behest of Roman Catholic influence. The

overwhelming majority against him in the senate came after a short but extremely warm debate during which Taft's traitorous attitude was severely criticized.

Senators Lodge and Dillingham led the fight to rebuke and to repudiate Taft's veto. Here is an extract from Senator Lodge's patriotic speech during the debate:---

"I fail to understand why it is that the United States alone among nations is not thought to have the right that all nations have---to say who shall come within its borders. It is the only country in the world where it is argued that people born in other countries who never have seen a United States are entitled to certain rights therein. We do not hesitate to apply a literacy test to our own people. Why is it we should hesitate to apply it to a foreigner?

"The opposition to this test is at the bottom of the same opposition that is made to every effort to improve our

immigration laws, or to restrict in any degree the number of immigrants!"

Senator Lodge was ably supported by Senator Williams, who sounded a key note when he said:---

"My reason for supporting the bill is that I am afraid of ignorance. I am afraid of the man who strikes out blindly to overcome the wrongs he thinks exist!"

Secretary Nagel was scored without fear by Senator Dillingham, one of the authors of the bill, who said among other very plain things:---

"This cheap, unskilled class of labor coming in for the last ten years has crowded out the better class of immigrants.

"The immigration commission's report shows," he continued, "that eighty-seven per cent of this class of immigrants enter singly and work for low wages, crowding out the older class of immigrants. It is for the Congress of the United States to say rather it wants that class or not!"

"Gumshoe Bill" Stone, Missouri's own pet mistake, rushed mouthily to the rescue of the Hierarchy's seemingly lost hope---but, alas! in vain! Here are two or three of his frantic frothings selected at random for amusement of Menace readers:---

"Literacy is not a good test of citizenship!"

Then the inimitable "Gumshoe" declared that the backhand and "similar organizations" (perhaps referring to the Jesuits), are composed of persons who could pass the literacy test.

"Who murdered Garfield? Who assassinated McKinley? Who committed these frightful crimes that startled our country?" ---Bill demanded frantically. Then he continued, "Everyone of them could have taken this test and entered this country!"

Let us answer your question, William.

First, both these delectable murderers were Catholics from the rankest Romish variety; second, they were both foreigners and had entered this country without a test.

After all, William, you take yourself too seriously---you are really considerable of a joke!

Wednesday, February 19th, the house of (so-called) representatives killed the Dillingham-Burnett immigration bill by vote of: Yeas, 213; Nays, 114; answered present, 2; not voting, 52!

"Wide open and unguarded stand our gates,
And through them press a wild, motley throng,
Men from Volga and Tartar steppes,
Featureless figures of the Hoang Ho,
Malayan Scythian, Teuton, Kelt and Slav
Flying the Old World's poverty and scorn,
These bringing with them unknown gods and rites,
Those tiger passions here to stretch their claws.

Oh, Liberty, white Goddess, is it well
To leave thy gates unguarded?

For so of old
The thronging Goth and Vandal trampled Rome,
And where the temple of the Caesars stood
The lean wolf unmolested made her lair!"

The above powerful lines are quoted from the splendidly patriotic speech made by Mr. Slayden, of Texas, just before the vote was taken upon this immigration bill in the house. Continuing, I believe that Mr. Slayden admirably voiced The Menace position when he uttered sentiments like these:----

"It is very generally admitted that we would be vastly better off if there were no alien races in the United States. . . .

"Certainly no white American ought to want social assimilation with any other race. Some strains are better and more desirable than others. . . .

"No hybrid, mule or mulatto, is a less desirable part of our social and political fabric than a thoroughbred. . . .

"No policy, traditional or other sort, commands my respect or sympathy when I see that it is hurtful to the best interest of my country. . .

"It has been abundantly shown that crime and literacy are not as intimately associated as crime and illiteracy, which, it seems to me, is a good enough reason for supporting the literacy test. . .

"We have people enough in this country for the present. We can safely rely upon the natural increase to fill up the unoccupied places. Density of population in not my standard of civilization. If it were, the conditions in India or China would make special appeal, which they do not. Nor am I fully persuaded that big export tables infalliby indicate happiness and prosperity among the people. The sweatshop (Romish?) output is great, but it comes from rooms fetid, unwholesome, and the abodes of misery (Good description of Houses of the Good Shepherd!), and is not a feature of our commerce to which we can point with pride. . .

"The gentleman from New York, (Goldfogle, Romanist), sets himself up as a guardian of 'true Americanism.' Great Heavens! Think what a calamity it would be to 'true Americanism' if he should go to sleep on his post!. . . .

"Mr. Speaker, ours is an American country!"

Mr. Heflin, of Alabama, in closing the debate, said among other things:----

"The unfit and the undesirable foreigner is the man that we desire to keep out of our country. The foreigner already here who is a good citizen, the man who came across the waters of his own volition to make this country his home, ought not to be opposed to enactment of a law that would protect his country----which is his country as well as mine---from the influx of unfit and criminal classes from foreign countries....

"Mr. Speaker, when will this traffic in human beings stop? When will we pass a law in the interest of American people on the subject of foreign immigration? (Applause.) .....

"Mr. Speaker, I believe that eighty-five per cent of the voters of America would this very hour vote today to pass this bill over the president's veto, and I appeal to the representatives of the American people to say by their votes today that this country shall not become a refuge and dumping ground for the refuse and criminal hordes of other countries!" (Loud applause.)

The Speaker: ". . . The question is, will the house on reconsideration pass this bill, the objections of the president of the United States to the contrary notwithstanding? Under the constitution this vote must

be taken by the yeas and nays. Those in favor of passing this bill over the president's veto will, when their names are called, answer yea, those opposed, will answer no, and the clerk will call the roll."

So, two-thirds not having voted therefore, the house upon reconsideration, refused to pass this immigration bill against the presidential veto.

The above sketch of Joe P. Tumulty was made from life by your correspondent at the time he (Tumulty) was in Washington recently looking over the White House and arranging "the ropes."

Tumulty, Romanist, is thirty-three years old. His father, Phil Tumulty, was born in County Cavin, Ireland. This older papist was a Jersey City contractor and politician---perhaps our readers will understand what that means without further explanation.

Joe was "educated" (sic) first in St. Bride's, then in St. Bridget's, and finally received the finishing touches in St. Peter's College. A JESUIT SCHOOL!

Joe Tumulty (accent on the first syllable of Tumulty, it rhymes with drum), has six children and is afflicted with the typical face of a priest, and, Irish to the core, a frantic devotee of the Italian man-god; withal, he has the practiced Jesuitical tongue of the trained "jollier."

The accompanying engraving is reproduced from a photograph taken by our staff correspondent, Mr. H. George Buss, at the open gates of the government bureau of engraving and printing Friday afternoon,

February 21st, 1913. This was again payday at the bureau. You will observe that Mr. Buss stood just behind Rome's black-garbed beggars when he took

this photograph. The Washington monument is visible in the distance.

------The Author.