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Some Fair Questions For Those
California Masons.
\yHEN Jim Fl aherty, Supreme Knight of
Columbus, picked two moneyless work
ing men of Philadelphia, and prosecuted them
for circulating the 4th Degree oath of his
treasonous secret society, he showed that he
is a most discreet warrior.
Jim knows who to kick. Even in that case,
he had to ease it along, for a year, and then
beg the printer and the barber to allow the
case to go by default.
The case was evidently a frame-up. It may
be that Megonigel and Shade are both Catho
lics. just as Jim is.
Anyway, I continued my efforts to bait
Jim and his Papal gang into agreeing with
me, on a Commission, "which should have the
power to send lor persons and papers, and
which should award an impartial judgment
as to that 4th Degree oath.
For two years, I badgered those brave
Knights, in the effort to smoke them out. It
was no go.
After the two years of agitation about the
oath had aroused the attention of the whole
country, the brave Knights held another
national convention, this year, and framed a
new oath which they could afford to show.
In this namby-pamby new oath they swear
to “support the Constitution of the United
States,” and do behave like good Christians!
Then they rushed into print with this new’
oath, almost before the ink was dry, and asked
the people to believe that they have no other,
and never had!
The Italian Pope already had quite a num
her of secret societies. There are his Jesuit
secret societies, about which the average Cath
olic is not allowed to know anything at all !
Isn't it strange that our American brethren
will remain in .a foreign church which has so
many secrets that are known only to the in
most ring of these secret societies?
what are those secrets?
No other church has secret societies.
No other religion in Christendom has oath
bound Jesuits, Dominicans, Franciscans, and
Knights of Columbus.
Why should any church, if its only purpose
is religious, require all these mysterious
organizations, whose objects and whose secret
work are unknown even to the members of
the Catholic church?
You can safety challenge any Catholic to
answer that guestion.
After the 4th Degree Knights of Columbus
had been driven into a corner and had made
a. new oath, to put in the display-window 7—-
they showed it to the following California
Masons:
“MOTLEY HEWES FLINT. —33d Degree, Past
Grand Master of Masons of California.
DANA REID WELLER. —3 2d Degree, Past
Grand Master of Masons of California.
WM. RHODES HERVEY. —32d Degree, Past
.Master and Master of Scottish Rite Lodge.
SAMUEL E. BURKE. —32d Degree, Past Mas
ter and Inspector of Masonic District.
Those gentlemen honestly believe, and certify,
that they have been shown a complete copy of all
the work, ceremonies and pledges used in the
order, and that we carefully read, discussed and
examined same.
Secret Association.
“We found that while the order is in a sense
a secret association, it is not an oath-bound or
ganization and that its ceremonies are comprised
in four degrees which are intended to teach and
inculcate principles that lie at the foundation of
every great religion and every free state.”
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In good faith, and for the purpose of ar
riving at a clear understanding with these
California gentlemen, I beg to propound to
them these questions:
(1.) Are you now, or have you ever been
Roman Catholics?
(2.) Do you know that the Papal law,
now in force, condemns Masonry as a capital
crime, punishable with death?
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Do you know that, uu.lcr this Roman Cath
olic law, the Masons are persecuted in Papal
countries, and that in Rome itself, the Pope
put a Mason to death, so recently as the days
of George Waslyington, Thomas Jefferson,
John Randolph, James Madison, James Mon
roe and William H. Crawford?
(3.) If Masonry is a capital crime by the
law of the Roman Catholic Church,- do you
believe that a Catholic secret society would
uncover its real secrets, to any real Masons?
(4.) Do you know that the official decla
ration of Roman Catholicism, on the subject
of Masonry is, that Freemasons believe—
is no God.
There is no moral law.
The Christian religion is superstition.
The only God who rules is Lucifer.
We love and worship Lucifer.
Freemasonry will never cease to make war
on Christ and Ills reliction.
The head of Freemasons is a MONSTER,
■who, if he were known, could not save him
self from the hangman.
The real Freemasonry is a criminal organi
zation, compared to which the Italian Mafia
(murderers) is a* praiseworthy organization.
The Masons have an inside Black Lodge,
where .assassians get their orders to do nvur
der, when the Head of the Masonic craft com
mands it.''
* Let us hear from those California Masons,
and learn whether they know 7 wliat the
Knights of Columbus think of themg and
■what Ambassador John Bonzano thinks of
Masonry.
The Papal envoy is at Washington: let the
California Masons— Messrs. Flint, Weller,
Hervey and Burke— write to him, and ask
him what -is the Pope's law on the subject of
Freemasonry.
(5.) Would you uncover your Masonic
secrets to a Roman Catholic—or to any one
else ?
If not. what is you-r reason for believing
that a Roman Catholic secret society would
uncover itself to Masons—or to anyone else?
(G.) What are'“the principles which lie at
the foundation of every great religion, and
every free State?”
Please state them!
You certify that the 4th Degree Knights of
Columbus have adopted rules, m accordant c
with those great principles : let us have a
brief summary of those great principles.
Do they inclu.de religious liberty, the free
dom of the press, freedom of speech, separa
tion of Church and State, and the supremat y
of American law over any foreign law?
Do they include the right of the people to
govern themselves ?
A Most Interesting Letter About
the Battle-Incident At Resaca.
Kirkland, ©S Soulh Carol Im.
Fort Worth, Texas, Dec. 2, 1914.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson,
Thomson, Ga.
DEAR SIR: Judge C. C. Cummins, the author
of the enclosed communication is the “His
torian of the Trans-Missisgippi Department U. C.
V.”
He lost his right arm at the battle of Gettys
burg, and gave the signal that opened the Great
Battle of Fredericksburg.
He practised law with Gen. Jas, R. Chalmers in
Mississippi until he moved to Texas. Has been
County Judge of this county for a number of
terms and is one of our oldest and most honored
citizens. Truly your old friend,
H. D. WOOD.
My friend, Wood’s enclosure reads as fol
lows :
Fort Worth, Tex., Nov. 21, 1914.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Editor Jeffersonian,
Thomson, Ga.
I note in yours of 19th, on page 6, that I find
a query in the head lines of an article, “Who was
this soldier of the 41st Georgia,’’ referring to
M* c s Bertie Norei’s story of the Cor fedora-'e sol
dier who risked bis life to carry canteens of
water to some wounded Federals. That some
weeks after Dr. Taylor of Crawfordsville, Indiana,
sent you a copy of poems by his brother v/ho
served four years in the Confederate army, and
that you found in this book a poem headlined,
“Kirkham of Georgia.” And you ask “w io was
Kirkham? Where did, he enlist? What became
of him? He is said to have belonged to the 41st
Georgia.”
This story is strikingly similar to that of a like
'daring deed of Richard Kirkland, a sergeant in
Kershaw’s (3rd South Carolina) Brigade, Mc-
Law’s Division, Army of Northern Virginia, which
occurred on 3rd of May, 18 63, when Stonewall
Jackson fell and we drove Hooker back at Frede
ricksburg, or it may have been on the 13th of
December 1862, when we drove Burnside back,
I am inclined to think it was at what is known
as ChanceUorsville, May 3rd. My brigade, Barks
dale’s Missippi was stationed each time to the
right of Kershaw’s behind the sunken road at the
foot of May re’s Heights, and each time we wit
nessed the repulse of the Federals, being in the
same division with Kershaw. Each time my bri
gade -was not on the firing line with Kershaw, a. I
each time we had the more pleasant duty of I-.ek
ing on while the Carolinians did the fearful c: -
cution in company with the Georgians of Coch’s
brigade. It was here on 13th of December that
Gen. T. R. .Cobb lost his life in sight of the home
over in the town where he was born.
The Veterans of South Carolina have honored
the memory of Kirkland, and by looking over the
general roster of the United Confederate Veterans
you will find camp Richard Kirkland listed in
the South Carolina division of camps.
The story of Kirklands heroism wiT be found
some ten years back in Cunningham’s Cor feel? e
Veteran as told by Gen. Kershaw‘before his d ? .. .
in which the General says he remonstrated • i i
Kirkland in his plea, to be allowed to bound c r
the sunken wall at the foot of Mayre’s He: du
in front of Fredericksburg—that it was almc.t
certain death with the enemy in easy range out
in front. But Kirkland had listened to the err -
tinuous cry of the wounded Federals lying in t. j
hot sun (and now I recall it must have been ifi
May) till it got on his nerves and. he could stm ’
it no longer, but took the risk and went over the
wall with a lot of canteens and gave relief to the
sufferers. That the minnies so-unded about him
at first till they saw what his aim was and the'’
ceased firing and he finished his mission of mercy
and returned in safety to his post.
I regret to record the sad conclusion, Sergeant
Kirkland yielded his life next year at Chicka
mauga, Sept. 20.
It is n-ot improbable that here were two stories
similar in name and incident, as I have known
many such heroic acts, not recorded which goes
to prove “the world knows not its greatest he
roes.” Yours truly,
* C. C. CUMMINGS,
Sergeant Major 17th Mississippi Regiment.
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