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Vol. 11, No. 16
HERE COME THE NEGRO PRIESTS, PREACHING IN THE SOUTH’
The St James Catholic Church, in the Suburbs of Mobile, Alabama!
The Italian Pope Is After Our Niggers! Where Wil! It Lead To?
WILL NEGRO MEN “CONFESS” WHITE GIRLS? IF NOT, WHY NOT?
E>Y due course of mail, the
following letter is received:
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Mobile, Ala., April 4, 1914.
Hon. Th os. E. Watson
Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: The enclosed circu
lar is very widely distributed in
and around Mobile. Prichard- is
a suburb of Mobile, and I suppose
this colored priest is a papa of the
notorious John Morris of Shred
ded Wheat-box fame.
Thinking that this might amuse
tor interest you, as I know you are
working for the interest of
humanity and the upbuilding of
a true American Government.
I approve and am in sympathy
With your great work.
Yours truly,
A FRIEND.
The circular is what we
generally call a handbill, and
it is printed in large black
type, which we reproduce as
exactly as our supply of big
letters will allow:
A Colored Catholic Priest
WILL PREACH
Next Sunday, April sth
At 10:30 in the Morning'; also
at 3 o’clock in the Afternoon in
St. James Catholic Church
Prichard Lane and College Street
CEDAR GROVE, PRICHARD
If you have never seen or heard
a Catholic Priest, come next Sun
day to both Services and hear the
most eloquent Catholic Preacher
of th a Colored Race.
Catholics and Non-Catholics Are Invited
Seats Free—No Collection.
FATHER CONRAD.
I admit that the advent of
these Roman Catholic Negro
Priests does not “amuse” me in
the least.
On the contrary, it awakens feelings of
dread, and disgust, and indignation.
The negro who preaches the doctrines of the
Baptists, the Methodists, the Presbyterians,
and other non-Catholic organizations arouses
no alarm, because he does not claim super
natural powers.
Such a negro preacher, is just a preacher
and nothing more: he passes among his
own people for what he may be worth to
'them.
He excites no special interest in ?as, until he
begins to teach some sort of incendiarism in
his pulpit. If he takes advantage of the
church to excite race hatred, advocate social
equality and to tell the black bucks that they
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have a right to white women—something soon
happens to that preacher.
But a negro who is ordained as a Roman
Catholic priest is a’fearful menace to mor
ality, to religion, and to the whites.
Priests are taught that they are equal to
Jesus Christ, when they are confessing peni
tents in the secrecy of the box; and, also,
when they “sacrifice” Jesus Christ at the
altar.
Archbishop Ireland, Cardinal Gibbons, and
other American prelates have announced that
doctrine, again and again.
The Present Pope, Pius X., alias Joseph
Sarto, used to preach it while he was bishop
of Venice. According to that orthodox papal
out his booklet against me,
several years ago, he bitterly resented my allu
sions to these negro priests. He declared
that they would work among the negroes,
exclusively.
Os course, I did not believe this, for my
studies of the fundamental law of popery had
shown me that Roman Catholicism cannot
draw any line of race or color, among the
supernatural Gods-on-earth.
How could it?
The moment they open the priesthood to a
negro, they clothe him with the same super
natural powers which the Pope himself
enjoyed before the appointed cardinals made
him the appointed Papa.
(CONCLUDED ON PAGE FIVE.),
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teaching, the priests arc super
natural — G-ods on earth..
Miles Sw r eeney was super
natural, a God-on-earth, but he
seduced Mollie Moran, just the
same.
Ilans Schmidt was super
natural, a God-on-earth; but he
ruined and then murdered
Anna Aumuller, all the same.
Father Schade well, of Savan
nah, is supernatural, a God in
a frock; but he had to take a
sound beating from Jerry
Walsh, just the same.
Now, we all know what the
negroes are. We all know what
a negro man is.
Therefore, when his thick,
woolly head has been filled
with the idea that he is more
than a commo-n white and
more than a common white
can't you see the possi
bilities of that negro priest
becoming a scourge to this
country?
There are plenty of negroes
in Mexico, but I have never
heard of a black priest, down
there.
There are millions of negroes
in Central and South America;
but none of them are priests,
so far as I am informed.
There are none in Cuba:
there are none in Jamaica.
There arc millions of negroes
in New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Illinois and
Ohio. But there is not a single
priest among these Idachs of
the North.
IVUY? If negro priests are
safe among the whites, they
must be as desirable North of
the Line, as South of it. Why,
then, are we alone threatened
with this tremendous peril?
When Lucien Johnson got
