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0 effersonian
Vol. 12, Mo. 44
ROMAN CATHOLIC “PRINCES” ARE ON THE RAMPAGE
Q EVERAL years ago when the French
Republic severed its relations with the
Confederated Italian Secret Societies—known
as the Roman Catholic Church—Benjamin
Keily was one of the American prelates who
roared most angrily.
France decided to quit paying ten million
dollars a year to a lot of lazy, licentious
priests; and also decided to close up the
many popish hell-holes where women were
kept for the use of men whose “religion”
won’t allow them to marry.
The Savannah bishop felt it to be his duty
to denounce the French government for what
it had done and to insolently 'declare that
if the Civil Power in America should pre
sume to enact laws which the Roman hierar
chy considered unjust, the Catholic Church
would disobey, defy and resist the State.
Bishop Keily’s local churches are the only
ones in the South, .so far as I know, in
which beastly sermons have been preached
against Protestant marriages—sermons which
grossly insulted every non-Catholic man,
woman and child.
M hen we are told with Keily’s-sanction
and approval that our nbothers were legalized
Concubines, our wives kept women, and our
daughters bastards, we would have to be
very Angelic indeed if we did not feel like
taking the priest by the throat and choking
the lie down his guzzle.
And by the way, the Savannah “Bishop's
Who is the Prosecutor in the Watson Case ? And How Stands the Case ?
RECENTLY, Mr. B. O. Flower—so long
known as the Editor of The Arena
Magazine, and so highly regarded for his lit
erary work—wrote to me, inquiring about my
case in the U. S. Court.
He asked whether it was a fact that I had
been indicted for mailing a magazine which
contained an extract from a Roman Catholic
book, in a dead language, to-wit, Latin.
He asked whether I quoted this dead lan
guage just as it was found in the Roman
Catholic book.
He asked whether the Roman Catholics
themselves had been publishing, selling and
mailing the same book.
This was the substance of Mr. Flower’s
questions, and my replies were, of course, in
the affirmative.
He further asked whether I had any evi
dence to prove that the Roman Catholics in
stigated the prosecution.
In reply I told-him the following:
That prior to the beginning of the, series
of chapters on. “The Roman Catholic Hier
archy, the deadliest menace to American lib
erties and institutions,” I published a pros
pectus of what they would contain; and that
immediately the Romanist news-dealer trust
—the American News Company—notified
our Business Manager, James Lanier, that if
I published any such articles, the magazine
would be boycotted.
The articles began to appear in the maga
the boycott was applied, our news-stand
. Thomson, Ga., Thursday, November 4, 1915
Furious Because of Their Fail
ure to Re-enslave Mexico.
House” is the only one in the South, so far
as I know, wherein a priest was beaten sound
ly with a stick by an Irish Catholic, and
for a cause which made Keily and the priest
hastily hush the whole matter up. (I refer,
of course, to “Father” Schadewell whose “cor
poreal presence” was soundly belabored by
Jerry Walsh.)
Bishop Keily is a moral traitor to his
country, provided he took the usual Romanist
oath of absolute, unlimited obedience to a
foreign potentate, namely the Italian Pope.
In fact, when James Church became Pope
Benedict XV., Keily was quoted in the Sa
vannah papers as saying that the Pope is
Universal ruler of the earth.
Spiritual only? Oh no: the oath doesn't
read that way.
Further, if Keily took the usual Bishop’s
oath, he solemnly swore to persecute to the
utmost, and to exterminate if he could, all
Protestants of whatever sect, all Schismatics,
all Christians who spurn the usurped author
ity of his foreign pagan master.
Consequently, this Savannah Prelate nat
urally provokes more than ordinary indigna
tion when he, from his glass house, goes to
throwing stones at our Civil magistrates, on
account of purely State matters.
circulation destroyed, and our advertisers
scared off.
The letters to the advertisers were signed
by Anthony Matre, Secretary of the Federa
tion of Catholic Societies; and he boasted of
his success in frightening our patrons—pub
lishing his boasts in “The Bulletin*' of the
Knights of Columbus.
These boycott letters were sent through the
mails, in violation of law.
When the loss of our 8,000 news-stand
sales, and of our advertising patronage, failed
to intimidate and stop me, another wedge
was driven.
Mr. A. J. S. Bourdeau, Circulation Mana
ger of The Protestant Magazine, wrote me a
warning of the intended criminal prosecu
tion, and enclosed a copy of “The Bulletin,”
in which appeared a statement to the effect
that a national convention of Knights of
Columbus had resolved that “Watson must
be put out of business.”
Shortly afterwards, the news reached me —
I think it was in the Northern papers—that
the Government was going to have me ar
rested.
I wrote or telegraphed Senator Bacon to
find out about it, and the Senator went to
see Mr. Hitchcock, Postmaster-General.
Mr. Hitchcock said that he had nothing
to do with it, and know nothing of it.
A few days later, either Senator Bacon or
a friend of mine in the lower house, tele
graphed me, tffat if I would make “conces-
In a violent letter to The Savannah Morn
ing News, dated October 21, PH 5 Keily
commences:
Sir: I do not suppose that the most enthu
siastic admirer of President Wilson will claim
that his Mexican policy has been a great success.
He recognized Madero; refused recognition to
Huerta; permitted the importation of arms by
the brigand, Villa invaded Mexico and seized her
chief port; held it for several months and then
left it, several of our men being killed in the
invasion; forced Huerta out of office and coun
try,- and now recognizes Carranza.
Here we have a characteristic illustration
of priestly misrepresentation.
“Z/c recognized Madero”
Has Bishop Keily been asleep? Is his
mind failing? Doesn’t he know that Wilson
did not become President until after the
Catholic plotters had overthrown and mur
dered Madero?
It was President Taft who recognized
Madero, and who refused to take the drip
ping hand of Huerta, the Judas who betrayed
and killed his master.
It was to President Taft, that Huerta
wired his insolent message. “I have the honor
to inform you that I have overthrown this
government.''’
Ihat Wilson also refused to take the bloody
hand of Huerta, was altogether to his credit.
Our people would have been profoundly
shocked, had President Wilson made himself,
(continued on page five.)
sions,*' the prosecution would not be pushed.
Not having consciously violated any law,
or abused the freedom of the press, I declined
the overture to make concessions.
Then came my arrest, June 1, 1913.
In brief, I was indicted (1) for publishing
a quotation, /in a dead language, from a
Roman Catholic book; (2) for ascribing to
pagan Phallic worship a certain vestment
worn by Catholic priests and nuns, said vest
ment being the symbol of procreation and
racial reproduction; and (3) for ridiculing
the American “Princes” of the Italian Poten
tate, whose sworn subjects they are.
When the case came on to be heard, Judge
Emory Speer disqualified himself, because lie
had taken umbrage at a little skit in The
Jeffersonian, wherein I indulged in some
harmless badinage over the very noticeable
fact, that the Macon priests had suddenly
became the most, eager and appreciative audi
tors of Judge Speer’s very witty and very
eloquent deliverances from the bench, and to
the Mercer Law Class.
To my amazement, the judge took this
badinage as a fling at him, and he became so
much offended that he virtually declared him
self incapable of giving me a fair trial.
Judge Foster of New Orleans appeared at
•the next term, and quashed the indictment
upon the ground that an author, or publisher,
cannot be punished on account of mere ex
tracts taken from a book, a paper, or a mag
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