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Bev. Doctor Washington Glad
den Says We Mnsl “Love”
the Roman Papists.
OA E is a great wonder-worker. Some
people preach that “God is love,” and
then they go to fixing themselves to cheat
somebody.
Some other people preach that “God is
love,” and then they buy up all the big guns,
and the new bombs, and these things that
fight in the air, and the other things that
fight below the surface of the sea—after which
they ;• hout to the other folks who believe that
God is love, “ Come on! We are heeled for
you. We’re ready to blow you up, and shoot
you down, and scatter your limbs around, and
make bloody ha'sh out of you, generally!”
Now, Doctor Washington Gladden —a nice
old man for a quiet old-hen tea-party—says
that we Protestants must quit being unkind
in our remarks about the Pope’s foot-kissers,
and must adopt a policy of “Love.”
That’s exactly what I mean to do.
In fact, I’ve already done it.
I lovingly printed a part of one of their
own religious books; and, instead of loving
me for circulating their literature, they swore
©ut a warrant in which they said, in effect,
that their literature is too obscene to go
through Uncle Samis mail pouches.
Then it must be pretty bad.
The priests do not prosecute anybody for
sending Sut Lovingood through the mails —•
snd Sut is awfully unclean.
The priests do not prosecute anybody for
sending the “Decameron” through the mails;
yet the “Decameron” is obscene enough to
make a respectable priest blush.
They do not prosecute the Balzac books,
nor the Zola books, nor the Guy de Maupas
sant books.
They do not even prosecute the “Bohe
mians,’' of Alurger; the “Madame Bovary,”
of Flaubert; the “Sappho” of Dauclet; the
of Voltaire: or “the Triumph of
Death,” by that chaste Catholic writer,
D'Annunzio.
Isn’t it queer that the pure-minded priests
let all these prurient books go by, and hopped
on me, for reprinting a part of one of the
Tope’s “religious” publications?
Think over that!
In the meanwhile, read the following ex
tract from the paper which is edited by the
bravest, most out-spoken, and most truly rep
resentative priest in America, Rev. D. S. Phe
lan, of St. Louis:
(Western Watchman, St. Louis.)
In several parts of the country, especially in
the great State of New York, our Catholic people
have within the past month been inundated by a
tidal wave of bigotry that has greatly outraged
their religious feelings and injured them politi
cally. The attacks were made bn them as Cath
olics and simply as Catholics. The attacks came
sometimes from men who were professed Protest
sets; but in the main from mon who have no reli
gion at all. This latter feature of the warfare
appears very strange to people who do not reflect
that PROTESTANTISM IS NOT A RELIGION—
NEVER WAS A RELIGION. The most that could
<ever be said of it was that, it was a form of rape
jBUd robbery masquerading as a religion, and a
laypocrisy wearing the livery of Christianity to
serve deadly sins in. We must not forget that
THREE-FOURTHS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE
UNITED STATES ARE UNBAPTIZED HEATH
ENS; and in a world of that religious complexion
tie position of the Church of God must always
he precarious.
The French high-court of law, known as
Oie Fa rliament of Paris, made a thorough in
vestigation of one of the Pope’s secret socie
ties —to-wit, the Jesuits.
The French high-court did so, in conse
quence of the commercial trouble into which
a Jesuit establishment had involved itself.
Some merchants of Marseilles pushed their
claims, and the Jesuits were forced to pro
duce their secret papers in court.
THE JEFFERSONIAN
In consequence, they not only lost the case,
but were expelled from Catholic France.
In giving the reasons for the judgment
against the Jesuits, the Parliament said —
“The consequences of their doctrines dstroy the
law of nature; break all bonds of civil society;
authorize lying, theft, perjury, the utmost un
cleanness, murderand all sins: their doctrines
root out all sentiments of humanity; excite rebel
lion; root out all religion; and substitute all sorts
of superstition, blasphemy, irreligion and idola
try.”
This Jesuit secret society is now extremely
powerful in these United States.
Their secret purposes are the same that they
were when Catholic France drove them out.
They are not permitted now to live, as an
organized body, in the French Republic.
They have recently been driven out of Mex
ico.
But in this country, they find refuge, en
couragement, offices, money, power and de
fenders !
Does Dr. Gladden bplieve that we can love
this terrible secret society into being good?
Who Is It That Is Spoiling to
Fight Us?
[ SEE by the Hearst papers that somebody
on the other side of somewhere, is mighty
apt to attack us before day next Tuesday
morning, and murder us in our beds—unless
we immediately go upon a Military War
footing, with 50 additional Peace-dove Bat
tleships, and 5,000,000 Christian soldiers,
trained to shoot and to sing, “It’s a long, long
way to Tipperary!”
Bless goodness! Air. Hearst has got me
badly frightened. I start at every unusual
noise, fearing that it is a German bomb.
I look under the bed every night, to make
sure that no belligerent Slav, Teuton, Croat,
Hungarian. Gaul, Slovak, or Polander is
waiting to blow my head off enduring of the
night.
But who are these foreign enemies, against
whom we must turn Repubrrc into'-a vast
military camp ?
Can Germany assail us? It seems that even
Crazy Bill Hohenzollern has got just as much
fighting as his mailed fist will ever want in
this vale of woe.
If that egomaniac comes out of 7/zJs scrape
with a spiked helmet on his sacred head, he’ll
never risk it in another war.
Once is.enough for Crazy Bill, you may be
sure.
Can France attack us? (Smile.)
Can Russia invade us? (Smile again.)
Can Great Britain do it?
Never in the world. If England saves her
empire in this Armageddon, she will do it by
the skin of her teeth, and she will lie de
lighted to be left alone for all time to come.
That Roman Catholic question will con
vulse Great Britain with a civil war within
ten years, unless she stops her present ap
proachment to Popery.
When this war is over, the nations oi
Europe will be so utterly exhausted, that the
very words ‘“Militarism,” and “War,” and
“Mailed f'ist,” will be hateful for the next
50 years.
There never was a time when this huge /Re
public was so absolutely safe, from outside
enemies.
The men who at such a time clamor for a
bigger Army and a bigger Navy, are the ene
mies at home, whom we have need to most
fear.
We have no foes abroad, and we will not
have any, if we can just keep our fool Mayos
and Deckers from getting us into unnecessary
trouble, by their jackass management of the
battleships that we already have—and need
not have.
If there is any country on earth that could
safely do away with Alilitarism, and save the
millions that are wasted on battleships and
armaments, it is these United States.
And there never was a more appalling ob
ject lesson of the innate danger of always be
ing ready to make Avar, than the European
tragedy now in progress.
If Germany had not thought she was so
thoroughly fixed to crush France, and to
scoop Belgium, the militarist nations would
not now be at death-grips.
Germany*'s long strain of preparedness to
make war, MADE the war.
And she hasn’t gained a thing by it, and
inav lose everything.
England wasn’t a vast camp wherein offi
cers cursed, and cuffed, and kicked, and spat
upon the private soldier, in the arduous effort
to change a man into a military automaton.
But, nevertheless, England got there in
time to save the situation and to foil the mad
Militarists of Germany.
And if the Catholic part of Ireland had
not played traitor, and refused to enlist, Ger
many would perhaps be suing for peace.
Instead of using the awful results of Mili
tarism in Europe, as an argument against it,
the American fanatics are citing the Avar as
an encouragement to us, to go and do like
wise.
EDITORIAL NOTES
By J. D. WATSON
T 'HERE is iioaa t a determined effort to run
Air. Bryan out of the Cabinet, and the
effort will succeed or Air. Bryan will prove
the same kind of rock around the present
Administration’s neck that Ballinger was to
the Taft administration.
From general criticism for neglect of pub
lic duty, for which he is well paid, Air.
Bryan’s critics have advanced to specific *
charges, and the charges are so serious, com
ing from an Administration paper as they
do, that Air. Bryan and the Administration
must make specific answer, or stand guilty of
the charges in the eyes of the public.
In The New York World of Nov. 30, Louis
Seibold, oA’er his oavu signature, specifically
charges Air. Bryan with neglect of public duty
in that from Oct. 14, up to and including
Nov 27, Mr. Bryan only devoted ten days to
his duties at Washington—that from Oct. 14
to Nov. 10, Air. Bryan Avas making political
speeches away from Washington, from Nov.
10 to 17, he was at the State Department in
Washington, from Nov. 17 to 24, he was at
his Ayinter home in Florida, returning to
M ashington Nov. 24, he spent two days at
his office and then hiked aAvay for Ann Har
bor, Alich.
And during the ten days that Air. Bryan
was at his office from Oct. 14, to Nov. 28, the
greater part of his time Avas taken up with
political supporters of- Air. Bryan’s for Avhom
he was trying s to get government jobs, while
at least one business man from South America
who had official business of a diplomatic na
ture Avith the State Department had to wait
until the Secretary finished his political con
ferences.
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But neglect of duty is not all that Air. Sei
bold specifically charges against Air. Bryan—
he gives Air. Bryan’s record to prove that he
is the most persistent hunter for political jobs
for political supporters that ever held a Cabi
net position—he cites instances to proA T e that
the Secretary of State has lowered the dig
nity of the highest office in the cabinet to the
leA’el of a political job-getting department,
and that the men who are given the jobs are,
in the main, totally unfit for the duties of the
position to Avhich they are appointed.
Not only has Air. Bryan made it a rule to
appoint Bryan men whenever he could in the
State Department, but he has invaded the
Diplomatic, Consular, Post Office, Army,
