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PAGE EIGHT
On page 3, the statement is made that—
“WJ/ IWW was
prosecuted “when the Federation of Catholic
Societies directed the attention of the United
States postal authorities toward this slander
ous and obscene publication ” Watson’s Mag
azine.
that fact is stated officially by Anthony
Matre, Secretary of the Catholic Federation,
in liis report to the convention recently held
in Toledo. Ohio.
Mat re’s report sets out that Judge Speer
disqualified himself “because his wife was a
Catholic.’’
Matre states further that Judge Foster
quashed the indictment on the ground that
‘’only a few sentences of the alleged obscene
matter were shown;” and that “shortly after
the quashing of the indictment, another in
dictment was found by the United States
Government in which the entire objection
able matter has been set forth.”
This shows that Matre doesn’t know what
he is talking about.
The entire “objectionable matter” irro? set
forth in the first bills, and as the entire ex
tract was. after all, nothing more than a
very small proportion of the whole maga
zine,—the magazine itself not being indicted
—the penal statute did not apply, for the sim
ple reason that the statute says “book,” and
not a chapter , or a page, or pages, oi a book.
A magazine is a book, and. like any other
book, must stand or fall, as a whole.
Matre’s report continues: '
“This indictment is now pending, and. as
far as your National Secretary could arcer
tain, no date has yet been set for the near
ing of the case of this arch-bigot.”
This official handling of my case by the
Secretary of the National Federation of
Catholic Societies pro res- —
That they caused the Government to prose
cute me, and that they are keeping up with
the case.
Matre concludes his official report to the
Catholic convention by quoting the bitterly
abusive, scurrilous, and libellous statements
recently published against me by a local pa
per in the city here I am into be tried; and
this strengthens into a conviction the sus
picion that these indecent and inflammatory
attacks on me had a malicious motive, namely,
to prejudice the ease in the minds of those
among whom it is to be tried.
Taking the statement in The Bulletin to
which Mr. Bourdeau called my attention, to
gether with the threats made before the
articles began, and the use of the mails by
Matre to intimidate our advertisers, and add
ing to these the positive statement contained
in Alatre’s official report, the source of the
prosecut ion is revealed:
It is a foreign potentate, acting through
his oathbound American subjects, who is try
ing to use the overwelming power of a Prot
estant Government to crush a loyal Protest
ant.
Ever since the Catholics of Tammany Hall
financed the criminal campaign which fraud
ulently put me out of public life in 1892, I
have devoted much time to writing books;
and this anti-Papal work which lias stung
the Italian hierarchy, caused me quite as
much study and labor as my Napoleon, Story
of France, Jetrerson, &c.
It was intended as a contribution to perma
nent Protestant and patriotic literature: and
if I am not broken on the wheel of continuous
persecution, it is my purpose to add other
volumes to that class of literature.
Such works are needed, unless our people
have become willing to accept the same sort
of Roman-priest rule which blasted the pros
perity, the morals, and the liberties of old
time England, old-time France, old-time
South America, old-time Spain, Portugal,
Italy and Mexico.
THE JEFFERSONIAN
Missionary Facts Gleaned From
Missionary Reports.
AT last, I have got the Boards to defend
** ing themselves before the people.
For several years, their policy was to ig
nore me. but that’s a thing of the past.
They now argue their side of the question
in booklets, magazines, and papers.
In other words, the debate is on, and the
people will have an opportunity {to hear
the discussion, and decide the controversy.
In the debate, the Boards will soon learn
that one little fact outweighs a ton of rhetoric.
Another thing they will soon discover is—
That they can't hush up the question by mere
abuse of Watson. The people are sick and
tired of personalities.
To say that those who favor the present
methods of the Boards are Angels, and their
opponents. Devils, doesn't satisfy intelligent
people.
The Boards have got to get down to brass
tacks, and explain to the churches why it
costs so many millions of dollars everv year,
to preach the Gospel to such a small number
of heathen.
The people want to know why they should
be required, for another 50 years, to pay out
$20,000,000 a year, on a mission system which
has utterly failed to produce one solitary con
verted heathen. ministering as pastor to a
single self-sup port ing native church!
During the last 50 years, the Foreign Mis
sionaries have cost the American and Euro
pean Churches at least a billion dollars.
A thousand million dollars spent, and half
a-centurv of labor wasted, with not one single
Christian School and Church, ministered to
by a native preacher, and maintained on the
money of the converts.
It is a stupendous fact!
How do the missionries get round it?
They do so. as they have been doing for 50
years: they write glowing letters of what
they are accomplishing, and these letters
always use such catch phrases as “the New
China.” “the Great awakening.” “Africa is
crying for Christ.” “Never before was there
such an opportunity,” “Today the harvest is
ripe,” &c.
Throughout the whole East, they have not
one single native Church like the primitive
Churches founded, on preaching alone, by the
Apostles.
Every one of the Christian Churches in the
East has to be fed on pap, by the missionary
funds.
If you will just pay attention to the actual
facts, as reported in the missionary publica
tions. you can soon see for yourself how un
like Gospel evangelism, this new craze has
become.
Turn to pages 11 and 12 of the G9th An
nua! Report of the Board of Missions of the
Al. E. Church. South, a copy of which you
can secure by writing to thg Board, Nash
ville, Tennessee.
They tell you that they started out in 1913,
to raise $250,000 for a Building and Sub
scription Fund.
In other words, they set their peg to collect
a quarter million dollars, in this country, to
build school-houses, hospitals, churches and
missionary mansions, in other countries.
Owing to various circumstances the Board
found itself obliged to get along on $60,050.
God konws that I, for one, would rather
die and be done with it. than see our blood
bought liberties destroyed by Vaticanism,
clericalism, priest-rule and debasing super
stitions.
I am not fighting for myself alone, nor
for my rights, alone, but for yours, and for
those of all men who reverence the Protestant
principles for which our ancestors fought
Popes and Kings.
What did they do with it? I quote their
own words:
“With this we have built one Church in
China, with others under way; one in Korea,
and aided another; purchased a motor-boat
for Dr. Manget in China. and a corner-lot for
Hiroshima Girls’ School; . . . aided in
building home for medical missionary Hu
chow. China : paid on Training School prop
erty amount so directed: two missionary resi
dences at Kwansei Gakuin, Japan; equip
ment for a hospital in Korea; two Churches
in Japan; equipment for hospital in Korea,
and other minor objects.”
Mind you. this Report is for 1915, and it
is the 69th; consequently it appears that this
Foreign Board has been receiving and mak
ing annual reports ever since 1846.
That’s long enough to give a fair test to
any system.
After 69 years of expense and labor, what
is the situation in the Foreign fields, as re
ported to the Southern Methodist Board?
In brief it is this: the Foreign converts will
not support their pastors, will not build their
own churches, will not build their own
schools, will not furnish a parsonage, and will
not even pay house-rent, for a medical mis
sionary.
You have to build the mansion for the doc
tor. the parsonage for the preacher, the hos
pital for the sick, and the school-house for
the children, and if Dr. Manget finds that he
needs a motor-boat, von have to buy it for
him.
Ain’t it awful?
Bishop Candler flung himself on me heav
ily, in a sermon in Columbus, because I had
said his Church sent doctors to Persia; but
here is his own Board's Report which shows
his Church is not only sending doctors to
China and Korea, but building mansions for
them to dwell in. and motor-boats to ride in,
and hospitals to treat the patients in.
Really. Bro. Warren ought to mosey down
to Columbus, and repeat that sermon.
Is it your idea that a resident pastor, in
Kwansei Ga Kuin, is a. missionary, in the
sense that Barnabas and Timothy were?
Is it your idea that a resident physician
in Huchow, is a missionary, in the sense that
Judson and Morrison were?
Does your Bible tell you to go into all
parts of the world, and build mansions for
stationary pastors, mansions for stationary
doctors, homes for stationary nurses, hospitals
for the sick, and school-houses to compete
with foreign government, for the secular edu
cation of their own children?
To put it another way—
Does your Bible command you to pay the
salaries of the pastors of foreign churches,
and to build parsonages for those pastors?
That's what you are doing. You are build
ing finer parsonages for the pastors of
Chinese churches, than you build for your
own pastors.
The stationary preacher in Shanghai, Su
ch ow. Tokio, and Huchow is called a foreign
missionary, but he is nothing more than the
resident pastor of a local congregation.
Did you ever think of it, in that light?
If not, do so, at once, and realize what an
un-Scriptural system the Boards are wasting
your money on.
Page 231 of the Report gives a table of
statistics, and this includes Brazil, Cuba and
Mexico.
From this table, it appears that the sum
total of all the foreign converts is only 30,139.
In behalf of this small number of foreign
Methodists, there are at work, on salaries paid
by Southern churches, 246 missionaries and
513 native workers.
Add the two forces and you have 759 paid
shepherds and shepherdesses, to watch after
30,139 foreign sheep, or not quite 40 sheep
to every shepherd.
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