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that fiews of this type have an utter contempt
for law, and a ravenous appetite for the for
bidden fruit— a lusts ul eagerness enhanced by
the racial novelty of the girls of the uncir
cumcised!
The I rank case is enough to depress the
most hopeful student of the times. It has
shown us how the capitalists of Big Money
regard the poor man’s daughter. It has
shown us - what our daily papers will do in
the interest of wealthy criminals. It has
shown us how differently the law deals with
the rich man and the poor. It has shown us
that some of our lawyers, members of the Bar
Association, are ready to use crook detectives
and crook witnesses to defeat Justice.
It has shown us that these lawyers are
eager to have the Federal Courts step into
the province of our State Courts, and set a
precedent which would mean that whoever
can hire the attorneys can run the gamut of
our State Courts, and then run the gamut of
the Federal judiciary.
And the end will not even then be reached.
If no court will disturb a righteous verdict,
political pulls must be tried on pardon
boards, candidates for governor, and the gov
ernor himself.
If everything fails, then there is the Will
Myers route, and the mysterious disappear
ance. 1
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Mr. Hughes 9 of Atlanta* Georgia*
Asks Some Questions.
TN the latest issue of John Noll’s Sunday
Visitor, Mr. Hughes, of Atlanta, has a
number of questions, to which Daddy John
attempts to reply.
The following is a sample:
MR- H.: In my anti-readings, I’ve read mostly
“The Jeffersonian,’’ of Thomson, Ga., edited by
Thos. E. Watson. Has Mr. Watson been chal
lenged to prove his charges?
ED.:, Very few Catholics ever see Watson’s
Magazine, and those who do pay no attention to
the accusations of the man who has been indicted
twice for sending obscene matter through the
mails. Our Sunday Visitor has a standing re
ward of SI,OOO for Watson or anyone else who
will prove any of the brazen charges made against
the Church or the clergy. Watson did pretend
to accept our challenge for proof that the Catholic
Church forbids the Bible to its people, but never
submitted the same to us in writing.
I am awfully sorry that Daddy John has
such a disinclination to tell the truth. If I
were not a good Baptist, and a mighty pa
tient man, I would call Daddy John a blamed
old liar.
As it is, however, I will merely remark
that the obscene matter for which I have been
prosecuted, off and on, for several years, was
innocently copied by me out of a Catholic
book, whose author is one of our most prin
cipallist Saints.
Need I say that the Saint referred to is
that lovely old Italian, named Alphonsus
Liguori ?
This Saint labored hard to invent a system
by which bachelor priests could safely make
sexual use of other Catholic's wives and
daughters, AND HE SUCCEEDED.
I thought that American husbands, lathers
and brothers of Catholic women would like
to know the Papal scheme for giving the
priests the use of women, without marriage.
Therefore, I published the Liguori plan,
and got arrested, because the language of the
Saint was so nasty.
As I did nothing more than quote the
Saint’s own chat, I hope he’ll see me out in
it.
As to that standing offer of SI,OOO, Daddy
Noll is dreaming.
I tried my best to get him to place the du
cats where they would be accessible to ac
cursed heretics, but he refused.
I dared him to place the money in the
hands of Senators Bansdell and Bacon, but
THE JEFFERSONIAN
he was unwilling to let the lucre leave Hunt
ington, Indiana.
M henever he gets ready to choose impartial
stakeholders, let me know. My ducats will
be ready.
Wteat Bo Yow TWfa joi This
Catholic Bachdcwn?
*TbtE Bev-. John Noll is still publishing, at
Huntington, Indiana, the popish paper
which he names, Our Stbnday Visitor.
He claims a circulation of 390,000. If he
really has that number of paid up subscribers,
the fact merely verifies again the old adage,
that a fool and his money are soon parted.
hather John is an awful story-teller. That's
what we children used to call one another,
when caught telling lies.
I rather like old Daddy John Noll, and
therefore I will not call him a liar. I do
wish, however, lie would tell the truth, now
and then.
Father John runs a department in his pa
per in which he promises to give “Nm/’crd
answers to Sincere questions?'’
To show you how Daddy John keeps his
word, I will quote a sample from the latest
issue of his 1 'isitor:
MR. II.: As I write I remember that in the
Nov. 5 issue of the Jeffersonian, Mr. Watson is
sues something in the form of a challenge to the
Knights of Columbus, gi which be states he will
prove thirteen charges against the Roman Church.
He states he will put $1,000.00 up too. Now,
his challenge in the Nov. 5 issue of the Jefferso
nian is pretty plain. What have you men, the K.
of C., to say?
ED.: The K. of C. do not read Watson’s
Magazine: and if they did, they would not trust
his sincerity, nor would they lower their dignity
by giving him notice. They do not need defence
through the courts.
Now. what do you think of Father John
Noll’s “-Sincere answer?”
First., lie says the Knights of Columbus
do not read Watson’s Magazine.
How came he to know that?
How came he to be ignorant of the fact
that the K. of C. prosecuted me in the Fed
eral Courts, because I told the people about
the vile liberties the priests take with Catho
lic; maids and matrons in the secret Confes
sional box?
How came Father Noll not to know that
the Knights of Columbus bad our magazine
boycotted, tried to have Hitchcock exclude it
from the mails, wrote to all our advertising
patrons warning them to quit advertising
with us, and then boasted’ of the effects of
this illegal boycott in their secretly circu
lated “IDdletin?”
Doesn't Daddy Noll read the K. of C. Bul
letin and Columbiad?
If not, he isn’t qualified to answer the
question whicih Mr. H. asked him.
Therefore, he ought to have confessed his
lack of knowledge on that point.
But if Daddy John does read the Bulletin
and the Columbiad, he knows that the K. of
C. do read Watson's "Magazine, and keep close
tab on its editor.
Daddy Noll further savs that even if the
K. of C. did read my challenge, and my offer
to deposit SI,OOO in The Georgia Railroad
Bank, they would not trust my “sincerity.”
Whose sincerity would they- trust? Who
are they looking for?
If they are afraid to put their ducats
against mine, why didn't they exempt me by
name, when they published their challenge ?
The SI,OOO would be sincere, and the money
will go into the bank the day after the K. of
C. toe the mark.
Daddy Noll says the K- of C- would not
lower their dignity by giving me notice.
Where did thev get any dignity? Who
are these 4th Degree night-hawks that kidnap
Baptist preachers, and brutally slap the face
of a non-combatant Methodist preacher, and
burn the $2,200 tent of such a Protestant lec
turer as Rev. W. 11. Boles?
If these dignified night-hawks did not wish
to notice me. why did they use their unlawful
and cowardly boycott in the effort to ruin
me ?
Why did these midnight skulkers, urlth
their Clan-na-Gacl and Molly Maguire
ods, try to coerce the Postmaster General r-.ro
closing the mails to a publisher whom these
K. of C. traitors dare not face, in open State
Court, on a libel suit?
Daddy Noll says, finally, that the K. of C.
“do not need defence through the courts.”
Why. then, did they go into the courts?
V\ hy did they jump on Megonigel and Shade,
the penniless barber and printer? Why did
they prosecute Hosmer of the Silverton
Journal ?
The truth is. the K. of C. are afraid to fight,
except when they have all the advantage.
They know who to lick!
EDITORIAL NOTES
Ry J. D. WATSGN
'"’pITE United States troops have been with
drawn from Vera Cruz, and the Mexi
cans left to cut each others throats to their
hearts content.
Zapata is in Mexico City with his troops,
Carranza at Vera Cruz with his troops, and
Villa is just outside of Mexico City with his
troops, ready to enter the city, but a little
afraid to do so until he finds out whether
Zapata is really his friend, as he pretends to
be. or whether he has laid a trap to assassi
nate him.
We refused to recognize Huerta, and ran
him out of Mexico, and Mexico is in a worse
state of revolution today than she has been at
any time since the elder Diaz was forced to
flee to Europe.—we meddled in an affair that
we should have either left entirely alone, or
settled, and we withdrew in a manner that
makes our government an object of pity to
other responsible governments.
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Now that our troops have been withdrawn
from Mexico without accomplishing any
thing, we naturally ask why were the lives
of 19 American sailors and marines sacrificed
and those of over 100 Mexicans taken ?
You will remember that one of our boat's
crew was arrested, while the city was under
martial law. was promptly released, with
every man unhurt, and. with an apology for
the arrest.
But this apology did not suit those in power
at M ashington. and we demanded of Huerta
that he have fired an official salute to tho
American flag, although we had refused to
recognize Huerta's government,—we de
manded of Huerta that he perform an official
act at the time we were telling both Huerta
and the whole world that he was not an official
of any government.
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Now that our troops have been withdrawn,
the question is lx?ing asked on everv side if
the object in bombarding and taking Vera
Cruz was to punish the Huerta government
for the arrest of the boat crew, while before
that time scores of Americans had been
killed, American women insulted by Mexican
mobs, thousands of Americans forced to flee
for their lives when not a single gun had
been tired by order of the administration to
protect them ?
Even the Washington Post, which is usu
ally with the administration asks:
Is there protection today for American citizens,
for American lives or property, far American in
terests, or any foreigner’s life and property, In
Mexico?
Is there respect for the American flag or the
American republic in any bandit camp in Mexico,
or in any city or district in Mexico?
Mexican peons in every part of Mexico have
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