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book not licensed by the Romanist authori
ties. '
In struggling for the liberty to print. Mil
ton, and others of the Liberators of enslaved
mankind, were necessarily forced to attack
the Romanist gag law's, and to “reflect on”
the so-called religion which used that in
famous method to stifle the progress of liberal
ideas.
No other church wants a law that" would
desecrate the tombs of the Liberators: why
does your church want it?
(5.) In all other churches, a distinct line
is drawn between truth and falsehood: in the
law demanded by your church, there is no
such distinction.
Gallivan does not seek to protect truth
from falsehood: what he aims to do is, to
protect falsehood from, being known.
If Gallivan and Fitzgerald, and the Calla
han gang, were merely working in the in
terest of truth, they would insert in their bills
the word, “false.”
Then the bill would read:
“The Postmaster General shall exclude
from the mails, any paper, book, etc., which
contains false statements which reflect upon
religion.”
Why is it they do not feel ashamed, when
their conduct proves that, what they really
fear is, THE UNCOVERING OF THE
TRUTH?
If the other churches were to virtually say,
“We need a law that will keep our secrets
covered up,” the other churches would lose
the respect of the whole world.
Your priests are so desperate over the
-world-wide wave of wrath, provoked by their
venality, their immorality, their hideous mis
treatment of women, and their everlasting
efforts to acquire political power, that they
have been driven into a fight on the funda
mentals of liberty and democracy.
Are you going to help foreign priests, who
are using American priests, to undermine the
foundations of our Government?
(6.) If your priests had morals at heart,
in their crusade against the Constitution, why
have they never objected to the mailing of
any papers and books except those which re
veal the deadly menace of Romanism?
They do not object to the lewd sex novels
which are flooding the country, to the great
injury of morals.
They do not object to naked courtesans
whose pictures are flaunted in our faces in
some of the Sunday supplements.
They do not strive to have Tom Jones,
Rhoderick Random. Roxalana, Baccaccio,
Sappho, Nana, Madame Bouvary, etc., put
out of the mails and the public libraries.
They do not forbid the filthy books of
Peter Dens, and Saint Alfonsus Liguori.
They do not bother Dr. Sanger’s History of
Prostitution.
They do not prosecute publishers who un
cover the traffic in girls.
Their sole objection is, to books and pa
pers which tell the truth on Romanism.
Are you thoroughly satisfied to remain in
a church which publicly confesses that it can
not afford to have the truth told on it?
The Editor of the Macon
Telegraph.
1 DON’T know who Pendleton’s successor
* is, but I know a thinker and a writer when
I see him “perform” a few times.
The present editorial writer of The Tele
graph is far and away the most forcible,
clear-headed and well-read, of any editorial
writer on the Georgia daily press.
“Socialists and Socialism” by Thos. E.
Watson, has a vast amount of information of
interest and value to those who think they
know what Socialism stands for. Price 50c.
The Jeffersonian Pub. Co., Thomson, Ga.
THE JEFFERSONIAN
A Florida Man, a Young Soldier,
to Be Hanged On
June 18th.
| N August, 1913, there came to my house a
handsome, stalwart young fellow, who was
engaged in the real estate business at Fort
Lauderdale, Florida.
The purpose of his visit was to purchase
our winter home on the East Coast.
I had bought it before the Romanist boy
cott and persecution had inflicted such heavy
losses on The Jeffersonian Publishing Com
pany, and had never intended to sell it; but
“circumstances alter cases,” and necessity
forced me to give up the beautiful place.
So, I made a trade with the young man
who had come to buy. and who spent the day
with us, socially, while he and I discussed
the terms. \
A jovial, care-free fellow was Herbert S.
Fine that day—an ideal summer day—and he
spoke in a vein of racy good humor of his
experiences in the Spanish War.
He was a native of Tennessee, but had vol
unteered, served his time; and, in returning
home, had settled at Fort Lauderdale.
With joy and pride, he spoke of his wife
and children, and said that his dream was,
to dispose of the place he had bargained for,
in such away that he would secure, for him
self and family, a home on the beach.
Very soon after he left us and went back
to Fort Lauderdale, we were shocked to learn
that he had killed a man, and was in jail at
Miami.
He had been to Palm Beach with some
ladies, including his wife, and his automobile
had broken down, a few miles out of Lauder
dale.
Unfortunately, the machine was taken to
the shop "where it had previously been re
paired, and with whose proprietor Fine had
had a dispute concerning the reasonableness
of his charges.
That dispute had taken the shape of litiga
tion in court, and had not been decided at the
time of the second breakdown.
It seems to be admitted that the owner of
the shop brought up this former dispute, and
thus provoked Fine into a quarrel.
It seems, also, to be admitted that the de
ceased used insulting words to Fine, in the
presence of Fine’s wife.
However, there was no fight, and Fine went
home.
Right there is where a fatal break occurred
in the evidence which, had it been laid before
the jury, would certainly have reduced the
crime to manslaughter.
When Mrs. Fine got home, she remembered
that there was no food in the house for next
day—a circumstance which she would no
doubt have mentioned when they first reached
Lauderdale, had not the sudden quarrel and
consequent excitement sprung up between her
husband and the deceased.
It was Saturday night, and therefore, she
was compelled to send her husband back up
town, to buy provisions, because the stores
would be closed, next day.
This tremendously important fact was not
known at the time, and could not be brought
before the jury.
My wife went down to our place on the
beach, that winter, and while she was there,
Mrs. Fine came to see her.
Tim poor woman was about to become a
mother, and was grieving herself to death,
because she blamed herself for the tragedy.
She told my wife how it came about that
Fine had gone back up town, and had thus
got into the second quarrel.
The heart-broken way in which she related
the facts, and took the self-reproach, were a
prelude to the tragedy which soon took her
away; for, in a few weeks after her visit to
my wife, the mother and child found rest in
the grave.
Soon afterwards, Fine was convicted of
murder, and sentenced to death.
Public sentiment was against him, for it
was believed that he had gone back up town
with the deliberate purpose to murder.
The courts refused a new trial, for no error
of law had been committed, and the sworn
evidence, made it murder.
Thus it comes to pass that the gallant
young Tennesseean is to be hanged, on the
18th of June, because he shot a man, and
killed him. in the course of a violent quarrel,
accidentally renewed—which quarrel had
been started by the insulting words of the de
ceased in the presence of the other man's wife.
Have the New York and Times, and
Mr. Hearst's papers heard of this case?
Have the New York preachers heard of it?
Have Jane Addams. and Geraldine Farrer,
and Osrar Strauss, and Billy Sunday, heard
of it?
Have the Jewish bankers, and the Gover
nors of the other States, heard of it ?
Have the Rabbis heard of this case?
What's the matter, gentlemen ?
Is your mantle of mercy designed only to
cover such despicable degenerates as Leo
Frank, who pursue, assault and murder help
less little factory girls?
Where is the great editor. Brisbane ? Where
is William Randolph Hearst? Where are
Doctors Parkhurst and Hillis?
Why does Billy Sunday preach for Leo
Frank, only?
Why does Geraldine Farrer spread herself
on the front page of the Atlanta
for Frank, only?
Is there a peculiar fascination about lecher
ous young men, who leave their young wives,
to run after girls?
Is there a holy horror of enforcing the law
against the man who commits crimes against
women and children ?
Why didn't the Atlanta Journal demand a
new trial in some other case, than Frank's?
In what respect. -is Herbert Fine's life
worth less than Leo Frank's?
When his country called him, this, brave
young Southerner sprang to arms: is he to die
like a sheep-killing dog, because, in the sud
den fury of irresistible passion, he shot an
other man?
Let us hope, notUet us pray, NOT!
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* those Americans who have foresworn
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The men who take that oath are traitors
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They are armed and drilled, as military
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Get my pamphlet, and study the facts fur
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This question .of Popery is the most import
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