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VoZ. 12, No. 16
The Macon Telegraph, and the Italian Pope’s “Ne Temere” Decree
E VIDENTLY, The Telegraph did not com
• 1 ?1 K with my request, and read Chapter
8, Book IV., of Blackstone’s “Commentaries
on the Laws of England.”
' It seems impossible for my neighbor to
catch the point, which is, that any citizen of
Georgia, subject to our laws and exercising
the rights and privileges given to citizens by
our lows, 78 GUILTY GF A SPECIES OF
TREASON, if he disobeys those laws, in
obedience to a foreign law.
It is not a question of a man deserting his
Wife, simply because he tires of her, can’t live
with her, or goes daft about some other
woman.
. That isn't the case at all. Those two Macon
citizens deserted their wives solely on account
of a foreign law, enforced by the sworn sub
ject of a foreign potentate.
Here we have a clear case of <7??, empire
within the empire, air authority from abroad
overriding the authority at home, a ruler liv
ing in Italy and ruling the citizens of Georgia.
Brown and Boifeuillet virtually tell the
people of Georgia that, although legally mar
ried, in accordance with Georgia laws, they
consider the marriage null and void, because
of a foreign law.
The Telegraph takes the position tnat this
violation of Georgia law, by Georgia citizens,
at the command of a sworn officer of a foreign
despot, “is pretty much the business of the
Roman Catholic Church.”
Were Pardons For Sin Ever Sold By the Roman Catholic Church?
NJol long ago, Dr. Felix V. Hanson had Aw> Trip £>l7 IV Al AT that he has no soul for music, no.stomach for
the audacity to pay a tribute to the great ~ fl HVWW • wine, and that he neither has a wife of his
NJ OT long ago, Dr. Felix V. Tlanson had
the audacity to pay a tribute to the great
German who, more than any other one man,
may be considered the founder of modern
civilization.
The free, open Bible, in the language of the
people; the individual's right to his own con
scientious belief: the married ministry, which
was the beginning of European morality; the
education of the common people ; the rejection
of the Pope’s claim to be equal to God in the
forgiveness of sin; the enormous influence of
Luther’s example in establishing personal
independence, free speech, and free press—-
these are largely due to the stalwart German
fighter.
Before the time of Luther, other brave, pro
testing Catholics bad endeavored to resist, the
pagan usurpations of Rome, but the Popes
had murdered them.
By the decree of Pope Alexander Vl.—the
vilest of men—the heroic, protesting Monk,
Savonarola, was burnt on the public square in
Florence.
■ Tn like manner, Tyndale was murdered by
the Pope, Arnold of Brescia was murdered
by the Pope. Guss and Jerome were murdered
by the Pope—in the latter case the whole
Roman Catholic body of priests in Council
ordered the murder.
But, in Martin Luther, the Man and the
Hour met: the Pope wanted to kill him, but
could not
'The inordinate greed, and the terrible vices
of the Catholic clergy had caused revolts
among kings and princes: consequently, Pope
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, oflpril 22, 1915
According to The Telegraph, the State has
nothing to do with it, because the Italian
Pope has not set up any “Spanish Inquisition
or St. Bartholomew Eve” in this State.
But The Telegraph did not answer my
questions.
I begged it to explain why the Roman
Catholics should be allowed to indulge in a
violation of our laws, any more than Jews,
Mormons, and Mohammedans.
Was the failure of The Telegraph to answer
due to its inability to do so?
My neighbor says that the law of Georgia
would compel Brown and Boifeuillet to sup
port those abandoned wives— whom they sol
emnly swore NOT to mistreat —and The Tele
graph adds —
“What more our laws can be expected to
do. The Telegraph can not quite see.”
Is The Telegraph quite sure that it is liv
ing up to its standard, as “a staid and sober
old family paper,” when it measures the sanc
tity of homes ansi the rights of wives by the
sufficiency of the alimony?
Is there money enough under the sun to
stop the bleeding of a human heart?
Is there a court in Georgia that can put a
valuation on a blighted life and a desolate
home ?
I feel sure this staid and sober old family
paper did not weigh its words, when it said,
in effect, that the laws of Geirgia were pow
erless to protect the Protestant, legally mar-
Leo X. did not find himself quite strong
enough to murder the dauntless German
Monk.
As I have said, Dr. Hanson paid a tribute
to this epoch-making German, and, of course,
the bigoted priests of Rome frothed at the
mouth.
One L. F Sharkey rushed into the papers
and magazines, with a reply to “Lutheran
Zealots;” and the lies that Sharkey told may
be judged from the following extract which I
clip from his ridiculous article:
But I pass on to Tetzel and the sale of in
dulgences. Dr. Hanson evidently knows as
much about indulgences as he does about the
real Luther. I have no time to enter into a dis
cussion of Tetzel’s methods. He has been
much misrepresented. The thing i wish to in
sist on is that indulgences are not and never
have been sold. The giving of alms is one form
of self-denial or penance, a pious usage conse
crated ever since the widow’s mite. The alms
asked by Tetzel was not obligatory. Dr. Han
ger’s re Terence to Tetzel and the Pope is a mis
statement of fact. Tetzel was not sent by the
Pope, but wag chosen by his Archbishop. And
Dr. Hanson absurdly repeats an old discredited
rhyme about the release of a soul from Pur
gatory at the dropping of a coin. It has no
more foundation in fact than that other old say
ing:
“Who loves rot wine and wife and song,
Remains a fool his iife long.”
Dad Sharkey, of course, can not be expected
to know the advantages of loving a wife, a
glass of wine, and a good song; for I judge
ried wives of this State from (he infernal
machinations of Roman priests, who ruin
these innocent women, by enforcing upon their
husbands the Pope's Italian law.
The Ne temere decree is a recent importa
tion : neither Brown nor Boifeuillet ever heard
of it, before they were married.
They never would have heard of it. had not
their priest proclaimed it and ordered, them
to obey it.
The priest himself never thought of such a
law, until a few years ago.
It came to him from his foreign rider; and
he, the vassal of his foreign potentate, is
ordered to enforce it. He does so. regardless
of the laws of Georgia.
Neither his “conscience,” nor the con
sciences of Brown and Boifeuillet, ever both
ered them concerning these mixed marriages,
before the Ne temere law was introduced hero
from Italy, less than ten years ago.
The rum of these Protestant wives is not
due to anything, except that infamous for
eign decree.
It is a part of the canonical law and dogma
of the Roman Catholic Church, which holds
that no marriages are valid save those per
formed by an unmarried priest.
And these gross, unmarried priests,
keep concubines instead of taking wives, dare
to insult us married Protestants by saying
(continued on pace four.)
that he has no soul for music, no stomach for
wine, and that he neither has a wife of his
own, nor access to the wife of any obliging
Catholic neighbor.
Therefore, we must cut out the wine, woman
and song question, as not being relevant.
Luther had a wife, and he loved her; Luther
drank wine, as Christ and the Apostles did,
and he loved it; Luther played on the guitar,
and had a melodious voice, and he loved a
good song.
In each of these particulars, he had Sharkey
discounted.
Sharkey has no voice, Sharkey has no wine,
Sharkey has no wife.
Now, as to the sale of indulgences, Dad
Sharkey flatly denies that any have ever been
sold-
Good Lord ! Then what was the cause of
• the row, when Luther nailed his ninety-five
propositions to the church door, and got a
bull of excommunication sent to him by the
Pope?
Does this impudent priest, Sharkey, sup
pose that all of us have forgotten the causes
of Luther’s rupture with Rome?
Does he suppose that all of us have forgot
ten the Pope’s Tariff on Sins, the infamous
list of prices for the remissions of the sins.
The Tawotio Papalis (Papal Tax-book) is
as authentic a historic document as Magna
Charta, and the Confession of Ausburg.
Every reader of history knows, that Tetzel
in Germany, Bernadino Sampson in Switzer
land, and many others, peddled these
(cUMTLNUhO 01, PAGE KIGHT.)
Price, Five Cents
