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Vol. 11, No. 32
The Roman Catholic Priesthood Curbed in Mexico
pOU two years, the Federal Government
has prostituted its powers to the Jesuits
and the Knights of Columbus who, m a
National C onvention, formally resolved that I
must be “put out of business.”
Why were these sworn subjects of a for
eign power so determined to boycott and ruin
our publishing house, and to make me “see
the inside of a penitentiary?”
The reason was, that I had set myself seri
ously to the great task of arousing our people
to the danger of allowing a foreign Italian
secret society to rule the United States.
Through Immigration, political deals,
and the use of the Confessional, the secret
societies of the Italian pope had used religion
as a mask, while they made insidious and
terrible encroachments upon morality and
liberty.
In sorrow I admit, that my political and
personal enemies, together with those Pro
testant fanatics who think more of a China-
The Record of the Self - Commissioned Senator, Hoke Smith, on the
IN the newspapers that are published in other
States, it seems to be a matter of amuse
ment to notice the way in which the Hoke
Smith peons in Georgia will swallow any old
lie his Ralph Smith, his Leo Frank Reuben
Arnold, his James R. Gray bankrupt, and his
Atlanta Journal are a-mind to tell.
I would give a dollar a piece to see the
Hoke Smith lies that Ralph Smith wouldn’t
swear to.
I jvould give two dollars apiece to get a
view of the Hoke Smith lies that Reuben Arn
old would not bolster up.
As to Gray and the Journal., I would be
willing to donate a watch and a shot-gun io
get a glimpse of the Hoke Smith lies that
they wouldn’t print on the front page, in
leaded type, and with raucous roars of out
raged virtue against all doubters.
Take that case of Bob Terrell, the negro
One of Hoke Smith’s Victims, the Widow of “Lee’s Old War-horse”
\A7HEN Henry Grady and General Gordon
brought ex-President Jefferson Davis
and his daughter Winnie to Atlanta, at the
unveiling of the statue to Ben Hill, I was
there.
The mists of many years hang between
now, and then; but the whole scene is clear to
my eyes, as though it happened yesterday.
The hotels were thronged, the streets were
full, the feeling was deep, the enthusiasm was
unbounded.
Jeff Davis coming back to Dixie! To be
received with the acclamations of a loving
people, after so many years of exile, of oblo
quy, of isolation and of relentless misrepre
sentation.
Blaine had made a martyr out of our fallen
leader, by seeking to exclude him by name,
and under cruel accusations, from the
Amnesty bill—and that was a generation
after Appomattox.
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, oflugust 6, 1914
man's children than they do of an American's
boys a.'nd, girls, aided the persecution aimed at
me by the Italian machine.
What was the chief reason why the pope’s
subjects wished to hush me up?
The tender spot was, my exposure of the
Confessional, in which the priests compel
their dupes to turn themselves inside out, foe
the pope’s benefit.
If the Italian secret societies can put every
member of every family through the most
searching cross-examination, and bind every
dupe not to tell to any living soul what ques
tions are asked, and what answers are given,
can you not see the enormous power for evil
that is thus surrendered by the people?
The secrets of families, the secrets of diplo
macy, the secrets of crime, the secrets of gov
ernment, and the secrets of every busi
ness can be fished for in the Confessional;
and the knowledge thus obtained can be used
to the vast advantage of the foreign secret.
Negro Appointments
Republican who was appointed by President
Woodrow Wilson, the alleged Democrat.
Smith is loading the mails again with
unpaid freight, to explain to the people that
he made a tremendous fight against that coon.
But the coon didn’t come down. It was
Smith who came down.
The Republican negro got the appointments
The great Self-appointed Senator alleges
that he “spoke frequently and at length
against his confirmation.”
When? Where? What went with those
speeches ?
They are not in the Congressional Record.
Why doesn’t Senator Smith prevail upon
Ralph Smith to send one of those long
speeches to the Journal, for publication?
Upon what grounds did Senator Smith
oppose the nigger City-Judge?
Blaine did not go to the War himself; and
therefore, like Zach Candler, Thad Stevens
and John J. Ingalls, he was much harder to
pacify, than were Grant, and Sherman, and
Sheridan, and that magnificent fighter, old
Dan Sickles.
Whatever we Southern people may have
thought of Jefferson Davis, we did not con
sider it fair for Blaine to single him out. and
lay our alleged sins upon that one pair of
enfeebled shoulders —shoulders all bent with
age and grief and misfortune.
Consequently, when the ex-President of
the Lost Cause reached Georgia, the ovation
was spontaneous and immense.
I have never seen anything like it, nor ever
can, again. Men who were ordinarily self
possessed, lost control of themselves: they
wildly cheered, waved hats, and brushed tears
out of their eyes.
As I watched the street from one of the
society which has declared its purpose to
“make America Catholic.”
No other religion claims the right to dive
into the deepest secrets of human life, human
thought, and human desire.
In every other religion, the confession is
voluntary, public, open and above board.
In every other religion, the confession of
sins is meant for no other purpose than to
purify the conscience and save the soul.
But in the Roman Catholic works on Moral
Theology, published under the sanction of
the Italian pope, and taught in all the
Roman Catholic theological seminaries, the
questions themselves show that the purpose
of the Roman Catholic priests in asking all
those questions is. to gain complete control,
for themselves, of the mind, heart, and con
duct of the persons questioned.
/ UNCOVERED THE CON FES
SION AL!
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Let him tell the people now, upon what
grounds he opposed Bob Terrell.
’I want to see how the alleged speech can be
reconciled to Smith's refusal to attend the
Democratic meeting of the white people who
were kicking against the appointment of the
negro.
The Senator told Secretary Warfield, of the
Democratic Association, that they ought not
to make the negro an issue.
Did the Senator himself make the negro an
issue ?
If not, what were the grounds of his oppo
sition to the negro City Judge?
If the Senator himself made the issue that
Terrell is a negro, why did he advise the
Democratic Association against doing the
same thing?
The Senator, in making those frequent
(continued on page five.)
windows of the Kimball House, the first note
of “Dixie'’ broke upon the air, telling every
body that Jeff Davis had reached the depot.
The “Rebel Yell’’ almost drowned the brass
bands and the drums.
The multitude at the monument was such
a press of humanity, that any sudden excite
ment and movement of the mass meant danger
to the individual. I never knew until then
what it was to feel afraid of being crushed .in
a crowd.
Before, getting into the midst of the jam,
I had been standing on the side-walk, looking
at a file of horsemen, drawn up, motionless
and silent, in the street.
At their head was a gray-whiskered
veteran, in full uniform of Confederate Gen
eral, sitting on his horse with grim com
posure, and looking as some old Norse-King
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