Anti-Catholic Cartoon of the Week: “Three Things That Never Marry”

Anti-Catholic Cartoon of the Week: “Three Things That Never Marry” September 19, 2014

scan0010This widely circulated tract did duty in several anti-Catholic campaigns in the 1910’s and 1920’s. It reads as follows:

THREE THINGS THAT NEVER MARRY

Three things that never marry—a bull, a bulldog, and a Catholic priest. The bull and the dog are living in harmony with the laws of nature. The priest ignores and defies the laws of nature and the commandments of God, insults decency and outrages social custom by assuming the pagan obligation of celibacy. The priest can have no woman of his own, but he can prey on the wives and daughters of others and menace society and government and do it in harmony with the laws of his pagan church. The pagan priest with no children of his own, that he is willing to recognize, is always damning the Public School and trying to tell people who beget their children naturally and lawfully how they must train and educate their offspring. The time has come to tell the unmarried bucks of the pope to marry, build homes, beget their children legally and obey the laws of this country or get out of America. The Rail Splitter is unmasking popery and preaching loyalty in every issue and you cannot afford to miss a single copy. Send 50c today for a year’s subscription.                 

Michael Williams, Shadow of the Pope (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1932), 313.


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