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...When the bogus Knights of Columbus fourth degree oath (TIME, Sept. 3) was being circulated, in the heat of the anti-Catholic persecutions last fall, the Knights themselves took various steps to check it. They freely published the true oath. They offered $25,000 to anyone who could prove the bogus oath was used...
According to the bogus oath, candidates were said to vow merciless war against heretics, Protestants, Masons. On the Sunday following his indictment Bateman. at the request of the board of trustees, tendered his resignation as pastor...
...post in the world will be hard put to it to draw a moral from the most recent news flash emanating from the Towers of Oxford. Within the week eight hundred products of the traditional college system gathered together at the office of the proctor in answer to a bogus printed notice. Coming at 9.15 in the morning this practical joke must have broken up many a hospitable breakfast party, but the Oxonians even in disillusion maintain the leisurely tradition and cheered and rollicked about for over an hour before dispersing. The attendance of the fire department and the efforts...
Publicity is the sole weapon that cuts the forger's revenue. Unfortunately it is always wielded too late. There may be news in the fact that two days before, ninety-nine merchants and lawyers dropped several grand on bogus tickets but there is no solace if you are the hundredth...
...read into the Congressional Record during a discussion in regard to the seating in Congress of the Hon. Thomas S. Butler, charged with its circulation in an effort to excite religious antipathies. It is doubtful whether Thomas Butler himself wrote the oath. The career of the bogus oath has been obscure; five years ago it was considered obsolete; recently no less than a million copies have been handed about. The Knights of Columbus offered $25,000 to anyone who could prove it to be part of their ritual. No one bothered...