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Vol. 12, No. 3
How Some of the Woodrow Wilson Laws Are Working
DEADERS of The Jeffersonian will remem-
* ber my description of the new Tariff law
as one which gave the manufacturers cheaper
raw material, but did not weaken the ruinous
monopoly of the Trusts, did not reduce the
cost of living, and did not increase the reve
nues of the Government.
How has the actual working of the new
law panned out?
Let us judge the tree by the fruits.
The official reports of the Government
covering the ten months that the new Tariff
had been in force, up to October 1914, tell the
tale.
Only 10 per cent of the foreign goods that
came into this country during that 10 month
period competed with our manufacturers.
As a set off to that insignificant competi
tion, their imports of their raw material free
of custom-house duty amounted to 48 per
cent of the entire imports.
In addition, they imported over 16 per
Here Is a Letter that Mr. Roosevelt and Cardinal O’Connell Should Read
MR. ROOSEVELT has rushed into print
with a violent denunciation of the Con
stitutionalists of Mexico.
The ex-President is shocked because the
Mexican patriots could not make a revolu
tion out of rose water.
Did our forefathers of 1776 make their
revolution without violence?
Were there no Tories mistreated? Were
British captives always given the kindest of
treatment ?
Did the Tories and the British always
treat the American patriots humanely?
What about those prison-hulks in New
York harbor?
What about the employment of the Indian
tomahawk and scalping knife?
Mr. Roosevelt cuts a poor figure when he
poses as a sissy boy.
He knows perfectly well that war and
diabolism go hand in hand—always did and
always will.
Isn't he the man who, when President,
telegraphed to our officers in the Philippines,
congratulating them upon the extermination
of the natives —men, women and children—•
who were fighting for the independence of
their country?
Isn’t he the man who wrote a book about
Birmingham, Alabama, Roman Catholics On the Warpath!
'T'HE following telegram received Monday
* seems to give the black eye to the Friday
message of Clerk Byall, which message I had
already pleasantly commented upon, else
iwhere in this paper.
Jeffersonian Publishing Co.
Arrested and placed under bond for selling
Watson’s Magazine and Jeffersonian. Papers
served by order of Chief of Police Eagan. Wire
lawyer here to attend to the case, which
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, January 21, 1915
cent of manufactured stuff which they
need for further use in their own manu
factures!
They therefore got a clear benefit of more
than 64 per cent of all the imports which
came in free of duty, as against only 10 per
cent of manufactured foreign goods ready
for use.
These figures appear on page 819, Congres
sional Record for Dec. 31, 1914, quoted in the
speech of Congressman Steenerson, of Min
nesota.
As against the 10 per cent of competition
which the new law puts against the American
manufacturer, it puts 22 per cent against the
American farmer!
In other words, the competition of the for
eign farmer is thrown against ours, to the
extent of 22 per cent, and ours have to bear,
also, the heaviest part of the 64 per cent
monopoly given to the American manufac
turers.
the Spanish war, and told of how he shot a
Spaniard in the back, when the little fellow
was running away?
Isn’t he the man who, in another book,
defended the Westerners who lynched horse
thieves ?
Verily, the last person in America to pose
as a sissy boy, is Theodore Roosevelt.
As to Cardinal O'Connell, that bloated and
arrogant traitor, who is under a solemn oath
to persecute non-Catholies to the death., had
better study some of the recent records of his
own foreign church before he tongue lashes
the Mexican patriots too “scurrilously.”
O'Connell’s foreign master, the Italian
Pope, was killing Masons, for toeing Masons,
about the time that our forefathers were
lynching Tories, for toeing Tories.
Under the law of Italian Popery, right
now, the Masons are classed with such
“heretics” as you and I, and these priests,
who are sworn to extirpate heretics., &e., may
lawfully murder Masons wherever they can
safely do so.
In the Pacific Baptist, for Nov. 28. 1914,
there is a letter written from Puebla, Mexico,
by Rev. E. R. Brown.
Let Mr. Roosevelt and Cardinal O'Connell
read it, before they give us any more hot rot
comes up Tuesday, January 19. Mail us at once
50 Jeffersonians, last issue.
THE BIRMINGHAM MAGAZINE AND POST
CARD CO.
(Birmingham, Ala.)
In reply to the S. O. S. cry of the Bir
hingham news-dealer, I could only say that
we have no lawyers in stock, either in Ala
bama, or elsewhere.
It is as much as I can do to keep the Pope
from sending me to the penitentiary.
During the month of October, 1914, the new
Tariff operated as follows:
The manufacturer brought in 43 per cent
of raw materials free of duty: he also
brought in, free of duty, 15 per cent of partly
manufactured foreign stuff needed for use in
American manufactures.
As against this 58 per cent of favoritism,
he had to stand the brunt of free foreign
manufacturers, to the extent of 12 per cent.
The American farmer, however, had to
bear the brunt of the 58 per cent of favorit
ism shown the manufacturer, and also, to
meet the competition of 27 per cent foreign
food stuffs, entering free of duty.
As to those foreign products which paid
Tariff duties for the privilege of selling in
our market, the figures are:
Crude materials used in manufacturing, 10
per cent.: foodstuffs, crude or manufactured,
34 per cent.: manufactures for further use
(continued on page six.)
about outrages on priests and nuns, who have
no legal right to he in Mexico at all.
If any readers of The Pacific Baptist cherish
the idea that Mexico does not need missionary
work because it has the Catholic Church, they
would be soon disabused of the illusion could
they go where the w r riter went last week. The
Constitutionalist authorities had heard of a plot
in the Catholic University in the next block to
our Baptist Missionary Day School, and sur
rounded the place, arresting all the students and
teachers and the Catholic priests. They searched
the university buildings and the Church of Beth
lehem which is connected with them, and under
neath the church in a hidden cellar they found
a gruesome situation. With an officer as guide
I went down by a trap door and concealed stair
way to the subterranean vault, where by the
light of a candle he showed me hundreds of
skulls, of men, women and children, bones of all
kinds, portions of human remains with flesh and
hair still clinging to them, bodies which had been
cut up, packed in small boxes, covered with quick
lime, and concealed in the walls, buried in the
floor; great piles of dirt and bones which had
been dug up in one part and piled in another to
make way for new interments. It was horrible,
awful! Up above was the beautifully decorated
Catholic church with gold-leaf and lacquer work;
underneath, this foul and loathsome secret burial
ground. The priests are all in the penitentiary
awaiting trial. That is a sample of what Catholi
cism is in Mexico. Do you wonder that the Con
stitutionalists have been severe against it? Do
you think there is no need for the pure gospel of
our Lord, the Holy Jesus?
Every Protestant must defend his own
business, and call on his local friends to help
him, do it.
The Pope's Knights of Columbus have
published their threats against all Americans
who dare to oppose this foreign church, or to
expose its rotten priesthood. >
AMERICANS MUST PREPARE FOR
ACTION.
I have no doubt that Birmingham foot
kissers will find plenty of Protestant pluck
in that city.
The fight is inevitable: let it come!
Price, Five Cents
