"Over 70 per cent. of all appointments made by President Wilson are Catholics. Their influence is so powerful it compels the homage of those in authority. "Five States now have Catholic Administrations. "Thirty-one States have Roman Catholic Democratic Central Committees. "Twenty thousand public schools have one-half Catholic teachers. "Over 100,000 public schools now contribute a part or all of the school tax to Catholic Churches and schools. "Six hundred public schools use Catholic readers and teach from them the Roman Catholic catechism. "Sixty-two per cent. of all offices of the United States, both elective and appointive, are now held by Roman Catholics. "New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo, St. Louis, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Boston now have 75 per cent. Catholic teachers in their public schools. "In all the cities and towns of the United States of 10,000 or more inhabitants an average of over 90 per cent. of the police force are Roman Catholics. "Roman Catholics are in the majority of the City Council of 10,000 cities and towns of the United States." MORE OF THE SAME STUFF _The Searchlight_ continues: "We will now look at the results of Catholic teaching on vice and virtue. The history of assassins of heads of Governments in the past is a history of murderous Roman Catholics. In 90 per cent. of the cases where criminals are executed for crimes committed, the victims of the execution have a priest at their elbow to administer the last sacrament. "The man who shot Roosevelt was a Roman Catholic. "The man who shot President Garfield was a Roman Catholic. "The man who shot President Lincoln was a Roman Catholic. "The plot that took the life of Lincoln emanated from Roman Catholic influence in the house of a Roman Catholic. "Abraham Lincoln said, 'I do not pretend to be a prophet but, though not a prophet, I see a very dark cloud on our horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome. It is filled with tears and blood. The true motive power is secreted behind the walls of the Vatican, the colleges and schools of the Jesuits, the convents of the nuns, and the confessional boxes of Rome,' and such opinions cost the Nation his life. "Over 65 per cent. of prison convicts of all grades and of all kinds of prisoners are Roman Catholics, while less than 5 per cent. are graduates of our public schools. "These statements are astounding when we remember that only about 12-½ per cent. of the entire population of the United States are Roman Catholics, while the other 87-½ per cent. are not." CHAPTER IX KU KLUX KLAN AND THE MASONS _Iowa and Missouri Jurisdiction Grand Masters Issue Public Denunciations Against the Klan_.