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The Jeffersonian
VoC 9, Number 42.
Watson’s Reply to "Windle
r (No. 11.)
[Mr. vV atson, in the magazine which bears his
name, published a series of chapters on “The
Roman Catholic Hierarchy.”
So indigiiant were the Romanists, that they
finally had the author arrested for sending
obscene matter through the mails. THE
OBSCENE MATTER CONSISTED OF A LATIN
QUOTATION FROM A ROMAN CATHOLIC
THEOLOGICAL TEXT-BOOK.
Watson’s purpose was to open the eyes of
American Catholics as to the horrible licentious
ness and dangers of the secret Confessional box,
WHERE LEWD PRIESTS INFLAME AND
SEDUCE CONFIDING MAIDS AND MATRONS.
The editor of the well-known Iconoclast, a
paper founded by the rabid Romanist, Brann,
published a series of editorials which he called,
“A REPLY TO THOS. E. WATSON.”
The Knights of Columbus were so delighted
with this “Reply,” that they bought it, by the
tens of thousands, and broadcasted the United
States with it.
Mr. Watson is now replying to this "Reply,”
which The Knights so eagerly endorsed, pur
chased and circulated. ]
REFERRING to the civilization which
preceded the rise of the Roman Cath
olic Church, Mr. Windle made this broad,
and most damaging statement—damaging, if
truer"
“The rights of childhood were never
thought of, and as to women they were prac
tically all slaves.”
In my last number, you were given the evi
dence as to how wisely and tenderly the
The President’s Hypocritical Plea For the Farmer
AAR. TAFT is painfully concerned because
the Farmer has to pay high rates of
interest on borrowed money.
He, the President, drops into “Aggers.”
He —that’s the President—says that the
Farmer had to pay $510,000,000, last year, on
a loan of $6,040,000,000.
He —the President, you know—declares
that this thing has got to stop, and he calls
loudly on the governors of the States to assist
him in stopping it.
When Bill Taft and the governors go to
work to stop this pillage of the Farmer, I
want a good seat, on the Grand-stand, to see
the spectacle.
Am willing to trade off one of my
favorite old mouse colored mare mules for a
ticket of admission to that circus.
I mean the circus of Bill Taft and the
governors rescuing the Foxy Farmer from
the clutches of the bankers, and then lending
the Foxy Farmer money at 3 1-2 per cent.
It’s just before the election, don’t you
know, and lots of fellows are painting the
sky a rich peculiar blue, with get-me-votes
promises.
On the day after the election, those well
worked promises will be the soap bubbles of
day before yesterday, or of week before last.
Why, plague take it all! isn’t this the
same fat, smiling hypocrite who promised a
downward revision of the Tariff, just before
the election of 1908?
Isn’t he the man who got elected on that
promise, and then shamelessly broke it ?
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, October 17, 1912.
children were brought up and educated under
the paganism of Greece. I quoted Macau
lay’s enthusiastic description of the Grecian
system, and his remarkable statement that he
knew of no modern university where a better
system of education was practised.
Bear in mind that this pagan civilization
of the Greeks was not confined to the small
State of Attica: it spread along the shores of
the Mediterranean Sea: it penetrated Asia
Minor; it illumined the Isles of the Egean
and Adriatic: it was flourishing on the
Hellespont: it was taught in the schools of
Egypt.
Not until the savage and fanatical monks
had murdered the Greek teacher, Hypatia;
and, later, burned the Serapeum and the noble
library, whose IRREPARABLE LOSS the
It is my purpose to make a full speech on
questions of great and permanent importance
at Thomson, Friday the 18th.
This speech will be taken down in short
hand and will be published by The Jeffer
sonian Publishing Co. in pamphlet form.
We will make the price as low as the cost
of production will permit, in order that it
may have the widest possible circulation.
It will be the lost speech I can possibly
make this year. T. E. W.
Isn’t he the man who praised the Senator
whose infernal tariff-bill put a tax of 165
per cent, on the poor man’s blanket, and a
tax of 250 per cent, on his overcoat?
Isn’t he the President who placed himself
as the impassible barrier between the
Farmer and the Relief that was offered in
the Farmers’ Free-list bill?
Isn’t Taft the man who by his persistent
vetoes prevented the Farmer from getting
cheaper clothes, cheaper agricultural imple
ments, cheaper lumber, cheaper hats and
shoes, cheaper wire and nails and wagons
and mowers and reapers and rakes?
The Farmer had to borrow five billion dol
lars, did he?
Why did the Farmer, have to borrow five
billion dollars?
LARGELY BECAUSE OF THE
DAMNABLE PAYNE-ALDRICH TAR
IFF WHICH INCREASED SO ENOR
MOUSLY THE- PRICE OF EVERY
THING THAT THE FARMER HAS TO
BUY.
This same Mr. Taft declared In Tils
Winona speech that the Payne-Aldrich bill
of 1910 was the best tariff this country has
ever known.
In another speech, he declared that the
woollen schedule, which compels the Farmer
to pay 100 per cent, tax on woollen clothing,
165 per cent, on his blanket, and 250 per cent,
on a cheap overcoat, “is indefensible.”
Yet, this same Taft defended the inde
fensible with his veto, when the Democrats
world of Letters yet mourns, did the glorious
Grecian system of education disappear from
the East.
Let us now examine the system of educa
tion which prevailed in the pagan Empire
of Rome, at the time when, according to
Windle, “the rights of childhood were never
thought of.”
Mr. Windle cited, as one of his authorities,
the Roman historian Suetonius. Did Mr.
IF indie ever read, hint
If so, it is impossible to explain why Mr.
Windle failed to remember what Suetonius
says about “The Eminent Grammarians,”
and “The Eminent Rhetoricians.”
Who were these Eminent men? They were
school-teachers I Suetonius devotes 25 pages
to them, in his “Lives of the Caesars.”
Mr. Windle should by all means peruse
those 25 pages.
He will learn from them that the Roman
school-masters often taught free schools, so
that the poorest children could attend.
Other grammarians left it to their scholars,
what tuition they should pay.
As to physical culture, there was the
stadia, and various kinds of games and
exercises.
So perfect was this system of development
that the Roman soldier —as we are told by
(continued on page twelve.)
and the Insurgents tried to give the Farmer
some relief.
It is the Tariff which not only robs the
Farmer in the markets of the United States,
but robs him in the foreign market.
How does the Tariff rob the Farmer at
home ?
Z>y giving birth and protection to the
Trusts, WHICH FIXES THE PRICE OF
WHAT THE FARMER BUYS, AND
ALSO OF WHAT HE SELLS.
The Farmer takes what the buyer offers,
and pays what the seller demands. ''
And the Tariff holds him in the trap
while buyer and seller pluck him, to the last
available feather.
How does the same Tariff rob him,
abroad ?
By limiting the market for his products.
The true statesman and the true friend of
the Farmer, is he who tries to change the
laws so that there would be no necessity for
the agricultural class to borrow so much
money.
Lower the tariff duties, put lumber and the
necessaries of life on the free list, abolish
legislation which enables the foreign com
petitor of our farmers to buy all kinds of
necessaries, from the American manufac
turer, cheaper than our farmers can do it—
do this, and our farmers will be where they,
were before the Civil War.
THEY WILL PAY OUT OF DEBT
AND STAY OUT.
The Farmer doesn’t want anybody’s
charity', what he wants is JUSTICE. <
Price, live Cents.